This paper aims to examine in depth the results of monetary poverty in Colombia,
highlighting the importance of key variables for the labor market, such as gender and
education, through the decomposition of changes in the Poverty due to population dynamics
is found that men have a greater contribution to poverty reduction, and although women are
gaining participation their conditions are less favorable, as regards education is evidenced an
inverse relationship between educational level and Poverty in Colombia, but more than half
of the heads of household have no education.