This article deals with the phenomena of over-education, understood as being an excessive imbalance between the educational level reached by an individual and that demanded by the job which such individual may be performing; this is due to limited job demand for qualified people in Colombia....

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution. We identify three main channels through which the wage distribution was affected: increasing returns to college education, changes in industry wages that hurt sectors with...

We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...

This paper examines if firm investments in research and experimental development (R&D) activities generate quasi-rents in the wages of skilled workers in the manufacturing industries of Colombia. It will test the hypothesis that variations in wages of skilled workers and in R&D spending are both...

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution. We identify three main channels through which the wage distribution was affected: increasing returns to college education, changes in industry wages that hurt sectors with...