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...

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the migration processes that have been occurring in Chile between 1977-82 and 1987-92, as a market mechanism to re-allocate labor among regions. Using traditional consumer theory, a model is developed for a

"Important work on gender and Peruvian migration during the bloody decade of the 1980s. Finds that most women who are heads of households work in the informal sector, and therefore, have lower incomes. Not surprisingly, households where only women or children are employed show greater levels of...