This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...

While the size of Colombia’s middle class have soared in the past decade (2002-12), most of the population remains poor or vulnerable, that is out of poverty but with high odds of falling back. Poor and vulnerable people typically face high precariousness in the labor market but little is...

This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...