%0 Journal Article %T Estructura econ¨®mica y desempleo en Colombia: un an¨¢lisis VEC %A Bonilla C¨¢rdenas %A Santiago %J Sociedad y Econom¨ªa %D 2011 %I Universidad del Valle %X the objective of this article is to show that features related to economic structure in colombia are relevant in order to explain the level of unemployment. by using a vec model and by analyzing impulse response functions and variance decomposition, it is concluded that increasing the degree of structural development of the economy is a policy that can help reduce unemployment in colombia. %K economic structure %K unemployment %K manufacturing sector %K vec model. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1657-63572011000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en