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Job vacancies in Colombia : 1976 - 2012
Álvarez, Andrés; Hofstetter Gascón, Marcel - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-11
rates for Colombia for the period 1976 - 2012. The result is the first dataset capturing the evolution of vacancies for … Colombia and the first one covering such a long period for any developing country. We publish the series in the Additional file …
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Sweet child o'mine : the impact of mining on educational and labor market outputs in Colombia
Herrera Prada, Luis Omar - 2024
This paper examines the effects of mineral extraction on human capital formation in Colombia, a country rich in natural …
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Congruence of Higher Education : Determinants and Effects of the Allocation Process in the Labor Market, Applied Case to Colombia
Estrada-Sosa, Juan-José - 2016
This paper provides new evidences to the literature of assignment in the labor market for the Colombian case. Specifically it focuses on the existing relationship between acquired human capital in higher education and its congruence in the labor market. Differing from previews studies, the...
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Sorting through affirmative action : three field experiments in Colombia
Ibañez, Marcela; Rai, Ashok; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
women and does it come at a cost of deterring high qualified men? In three field experiments in Colombia we compare …
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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023
a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students …
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Colombian Labor Market Division During the Nineties
Uribe, José Ignacio; Ortiz, Carlos Humberto; García, … - 2007
This article shows that the Mincer equations, augmented with variables of firm size and corrected by selectivity bias, yield results that are consistent with the theories of human capital and labor segmentation. Greater firm endowments of human capital and physical capital are related to greater...
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Recent trends in the youth labor market in Colombia : diagnosis and policy challenges
Ham, Andrés; Maldonado, Darío; Guzmán-Gutiérrez, … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-62
This paper characterizes the labor market of youth in Colombia from 2008 to 2017. We estimate labor market indicators … for individuals aged between 14 and 28 years using microdata from Colombia's household surveys over the study period. Our … policy based on these estimates as well as the critical analysis of recent youth policies in Colombia. …
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Perechod "učeba - rabota" : Omut ili brod?
Roščin, S. Ju. (contributor) - 2006
This paper considers the school-to-work transition and discusses its distinctive features in the Russian economy. Using RLMS data covering 1995-2003 years we estimate which factors and to what extent affect the transition. We also examine effects of regional unemploymentand wages, sharing work...
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The early labour market effects of generally and vocationally oriented higher education : is there a trade-off?
Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the start of the career (when opting for a vocational orientation) and a lower risk of bad match...
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Educacion y movilidad intergeneracional en Colombia, 1929-1996
Cartagena, Katherine - In: Estudios Economicos de Desarrollo Internacional 3 (2003) 2
Este trabajo analiza la movilidad educativa entre generaciones en Colombia desde 1929 hasta mediados de la decada de … educacion superior. <p> This paper analyzes the intergenerational educational mobility in Colombia from 1929 to mid 1990s. By …
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