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Three essays on human capital and labor markets for college graduates in Colombia
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gomez, Norma J. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | This research analyzes the relationship among human capital accumulation, return to education, and migration, for university graduates in Colombia. Taking advantage of newly available data on the graduate tests scores administered at the end of high school and at the end of college, information on labor market outcomes, and location; I use different models to study how much human capital is accumulated during college, how this capital is rewarded in the labor market, and how these incentives lead to reallocation of human capital across regions in Colombia by analyzing migration decisions. The first chapter is based on the uniqueness of the national tests scores in Colombia where the same students take standardized test both at the end of high school and at the end of college. I use these scores to estimate the value added of college education by university and then aggregate it by region using an Average Residual model. I define 10 regions in the country and rank universities according to value added, presenting rankings by region. I find that public universities outperform private ones in terms of value added, for the regions on the top 5. These results suggest that public universities generate higher value added compared to private universities, also that universities in the regions where the main cities are located outperform universities in second-tier cities. This regional disparity is relevant, since the development process |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1436621463&disposition=inline |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
