Double Penalty in Returns to Education: Informality and Educational Mismatch in the Colombian Labour Market

Herrera-Idárraga, Paula; López‐Bazo, Enrique; Motellón, Elisabet

doi:10.1080/00220388.2015.1041516

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“…31. Some examples of the literature are Shamsuddin (1998), Dustmann and Schmidt (2000), Hayfron (2002), Adsera and Chiswick (2007), Le and Miller (2010), Nicodemo and Ramos (2012), Lopez (2012), Piazzalunga (2015) and Herrera-Id arraga et al (2015).…”

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Wage Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Beyer

2019

German Economic Review

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This paper updates and deepens our understanding of the wage performance of immigrants in Germany. Using the German Socio‐Economic Panel, it documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20% less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills, and with a German degree, and larger for others. The gap declines gradually over time but at a decreasing rate and much faster for more recent cohorts. Less success in obtaining jobs with higher occupational autonomy explains half of the wage gap.

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Wage Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Beyer

2019

German Economic Review

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“…Their results suggested that the main difference between those periods is the impact of education over wages, finding that returns to education are higher in the formal labour market and that education and individual skills are important factors affecting the decisions of participating in specific segments of the labour market. Similarly, Herrera-Idárraga, López-Bazo, and Motellón (2015) found evidence of a double penalty for the lack of educational capital in Colombia composed by the educational-occupation mismatch faced by informal workers and the comparatively lower returns to education of this group of employees. Moreover, for the case of the informal labour market in Colombia, García (2017) found a relevant heterogeneity in wages within this informal sector between distinct segments of workers but not on a geographical dimension.…”

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Education as a key to reduce spatial inequalities and informality in Argentinean regional labour markets

Quiroga-Martínez

Vázquez

2021

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This paper assesses the effects of the individual educational capital on their odds to belong to the formal or informal labour market in Argentina. Using recent microdata that studies more than 11,000 workers we estimate a probit model that relates the probability of belonging to the formal or informal labour market depending on his/her years of schooling and other control variables. Our findings provide empirical evidence of the significant effect of making effective the legal minimum schooling years in order to reduce the informality rate and show that education policies could be used as a way of reducing regional inequalities in Argentina.

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“…People who work in informal employment (e.g. self-employed entrepreneurs, unpaid domestic workers) usually receive less return for their education (Herrera-ld arraga et al, 2015). Working part-time, which can be seen as another type of informal employment, also leads to being underemployed (Gialis et al, 2018).…”

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Employment mismatch from a distributive justice perspective

Bian

2020

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Purpose Employment mismatch is a significant problem in many countries. However, little conceptualization research has been conducted on employment mismatch from a social justice perspective. The purpose of this study is to shed light on social justice issues that have been obscured in the human resource development (HRD) literature through the lens of the distributive justice theory. Design/methodology/approach This study first reviews the literature to identify the gaps in employment mismatch research by reviewing three relevant bodies of literature: education mismatch, immigrant mismatch and disability mismatch. It then provides a new conceptualization of employment mismatch by examining employment mismatch through the lens of Rawls’ (1971) distributive justice theory. Findings The author proposed a framework of healthy employment relations using the constructs of social system design, moral guidance, education reform and individual development. Implications were proposed for research and practice. Originality/value The new framework of healthy employment approaches employment mismatch from four aspects embraced by the distributive justice theory. This model can assist HRD professionals and policymakers in responding to the employment mismatch of different populations.

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Double Penalty in Returns to Education: Informality and Educational Mismatch in the Colombian Labour Market

Cited by 27 publications

References 49 publications

Wage Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Wage Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Education as a key to reduce spatial inequalities and informality in Argentinean regional labour markets

Employment mismatch from a distributive justice perspective

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