Análisis de la situación del sector de la construcción y su impacto en el empleo.

Abstract

The construction sector is considered the engine of the Ecuadorian economy, since it involves other sectors that provide inputs. Thus, this research focused its attention on the construction industry, establishing as a central objective to analyze the situation of the construction sector and its impact on the labor market in the period 2000-2021. The study was deductive, starting with dependent variables such as the number of jobs created and independent variables such as GDP Construction, which allowed the establishment of hypotheses and specification of the conceptual model. The research was quantitative descriptive, correlational and with non-experimental, longitudinal design. In order to arrive at a conclusive estimate, regression and correlation analysis was used with a high correlation of 0.8448, which is higher than 0.70 as recommended by experts. Among the main findings, a significant positive effect on both regressions was determined. Whereas, the probability of 0.0036 is less than the significance level of 0.05. However, the probability of the estimator of the dichotomous variable was 0.4029 higher than the significance level of 0.05, which means that there is no significant difference between one period of government and another. Based on these results, the work proposes recommendations for future research and also a series of practical considerations for the sector studied.