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This paper analyzes over-education in Colombia, using the data of individuals and companies, compiled by the National Apprenticeship Service (SENA) in 2006. It finds that there is a 14% likelihood of being over-educated and that this depends on the mobility between different areas of...
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The objective of this research was to characterize the training in companies led by women and determine if there is a … entrepreneurs consider training important; nevertheless only half have been trained, the average annual training hours being 45. In … addition, only one third have implemented training programs for their employees, and the training topics have been mainly in …
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El objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar evidencia empírica sobre la formación laboral adquirida por trabajadores nativos e inmigrantes a fin de conocer si existen diferencias en los patrones de inversión de ambos colectivos. Para ello, se utilizan datos de asalariados procedentes de la...
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Los debates académicos y de políticas acerca de la actividad microempresarial se centran frecuentemente en las restricciones crediticias, asumiendo que los negocios se manejan de manera óptima dadas esas y otras restricciones. Los microempresarios, sin embargo, raramente tienen capacitación...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar las transiciones desde el momento en que tiene lugar la primera entrada al empleo, así como la evolución laboral posterior. Para ello, a partir de la información aportada por la Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales (MCVL), se estudia la probabilidad que...
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training levels that the workers must have to avoid negative effects. However, in this study, the role played by individual …
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training levels that the workers must have to avoid negative effects. However, in this study, the role played by individual …
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English Abstract: This article identifies the characteristics of internally displaced women' entrepreneurships. It was made a literature review about the principal categories and a semi structured interview with ten internally displaced women in Usme – Bogotá. The exposure to violent episodes...
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English Abstract: This paper, the result of a broader research on female entrepreneurship, aims to analyze the competence dimension of knowledge on women entrepreneurs. The method used is qualitative, comparatively analyzing the speech and enterprising entrepreneurs develop knowledge about and...
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Economic literature about determinants of labor income has evolved around its theoretical and methodological foundations and more sophisticated and accurate empirical estimations emerged. Colombian literature, though prolific, lacks on rigor. In order to exemplify the effects of this inattention...
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