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Essays in labor markets.

Georgetown University., Economics.

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Essays in labor markets.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays in labor markets./
Author:	Pena-Parga, Ximena.
Description:	159 p.
Notes:	Advisers: James W. Albrecht; Axel Z. Anderson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-08A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3320714
ISBN:	9780549741329

Essays in labor markets.
Pena-Parga, Ximena.

Essays in labor markets. - 159 p.

Advisers: James W. Albrecht; Axel Z. Anderson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2008.

Two of the main features of the Colombian labor market are high unemployment rates and sizeable gender differentials. This dissertation aims at better understanding these characteristics. Chapter 1 explores the puzzle of why, even though women receive lower returns to education than men, do they invest more in education. I consider an alternative benefit of increased education: better matching opportunities. Men are relatively scarce in the marriage market, which implies that the marginal returns to schooling are higher in the marriage market for females, since women compete more intensely. The paper suggests that the dynamics of the education gap are explained by the interaction of incentives generated in the labor and marriage markets. The marginal wage gap generates additional incentives for men to educate while the relative abundance of females in the marriage market suggests that women should invest more in schooling.

ISBN: 9780549741329Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

Essays in labor markets.
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520 $a Two of the main features of the Colombian labor market are high unemployment rates and sizeable gender differentials. This dissertation aims at better understanding these characteristics. Chapter 1 explores the puzzle of why, even though women receive lower returns to education than men, do they invest more in education. I consider an alternative benefit of increased education: better matching opportunities. Men are relatively scarce in the marriage market, which implies that the marginal returns to schooling are higher in the marriage market for females, since women compete more intensely. The paper suggests that the dynamics of the education gap are explained by the interaction of incentives generated in the labor and marriage markets. The marginal wage gap generates additional incentives for men to educate while the relative abundance of females in the marriage market suggests that women should invest more in schooling.
520 $a Chapter 2, coauthored with Alejandro Badel, is a deeper exploration of the Gender wage gap in Colombia. We analyze the wage gap along the distribution, that is, the difference between the observed men and women distributions at different percentiles: men are always paid significantly more. After accounting for female non-random selection into work, we find a bigger gender gap, especially at the upper-end of the distribution. Gaps are decomposed into a component due to differences in human capital characteristics, such as age and education, and differences in the rewards to these characteristics: the gaps are largely explained by differences in the rewards to labor market characteristics between genders.
520 $a The third Chapter, coauthored with Camilo Mondragon-Velez, explores the question of whether "pure" self-employment in Colombia is a form of, or a path, to entrepreneurship. We study the motivations to become an entrepreneur by, first, analyzing the transition into and out of potential forms of entrepreneurship. Second, we focus on the financial motivations by measuring the differences in earnings of self-employment and business ownership relative to salaried work. The results of this paper suggest that while business ownership is what the literature associates with entrepreneurship, self-employment is basically a subsistence activity.
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