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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...
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We study how signaling skills that are specific to college majors affect labor market outcomes of college graduates. We …
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In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of post-schooling training that explicitly allows for possible complementarity between initial schooling levels and returns to training. Precisely, the wage outcome equation depends on accumulated schooling and on the incidence of...
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We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential changes in the labor market. The analysis is performed in the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria. Our exercise suggests that the endogenous...
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We follow Brodaty et al. (2008) and develop a model within the signalling literature where an employer decides whether …) institution. The empirical design of our paper builds on evidence relative to first labour market entry of graduates to identify a … signalling effect of individual and institutional quality of study on individual horizontal match quality. First, based on a …
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