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Title: | Double Penalty in Returns to Education: Informality and Educational Mismatch in the Colombian Labour market |
Author: | Herrera-Idárraga, Paula López-Bazo, Enrique Motellón Corral, Elisabet |
Keywords: | Mercat de treball Recursos humans Igualtat retributiva Desenvolupament econòmic Colòmbia Labor market Human capital Pay equity Economic development Colombia |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-AQR13/04] [WP E-IR13/07] |
Abstract: | This paper examines the returns to education taking into consideration the existence of educational mismatches in the formal and informal employment of a developing country. Results show that the returns of surplus, required and deficit years of schooling are different in the two sectors. Moreover, they suggest that these returns vary along the wage distribution, and that the pattern of variation differs for formal and informal workers. In particular, informal workers face not only lower returns to their education, but suffer a second penalty associated with educational mismatches that puts them at a greater disadvantage compare to their formal counterparts. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2013/201307.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2013, IR13/07 AQR – Working Papers, 2013, AQR13/04 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/57626 |
ISSN: | 2014-1254 |
Appears in Collections: | Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional) – Working Papers Documents de treball / Informes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada) Publicacions de projectes de recerca finançats per la UE |
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