“…We are not the first aiming to understand the role of race in Colombia's labor markets. Previous works, typically focus on large cities, include studies in Cali, the city with the largest number of Afro-descendants (Diosa Ramírez, 2015;Marulanda and Rodríguez, 2014;Paz Moreno and Delgado Cortez, 2017;Heredia et al, 2010), and Cartagena, the city with the highest proportion of Afro-descendants (Romero-Prieto, 2007). There are also some studies for the two biggest Colombian cities, Bogotá (Garavito et al, 2013), and Medellín (Álvarez Ossa et al, 2014;García Sánchez, 2010).…”