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Signaling worker quality in a developing country: Lessons from a certification program
We evaluate the returns to signaling occupation-specific skills using unique administrative data from a nationwide certification program in Colombia. The program certifies skills and issues three certificates: basic, intermediate, and advanced. We use regression discontinuity methods to compare workers' earnings around certificateassignment thresholds. Signaling advanced occupation-specific skills yields significant returns: 9.7%, on average, within two years of certification. Instead, we find no effects from signaling basic or intermediate occupation-specific skills. Our analysis reveals that the primary mechanism behind the observed income effects associated with the advanced certificate is the ability to signal occupation-specific skills to potential employers.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper Series ; No. 69
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Economics: General
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mancino, M. Antonella
Morales, Leonardo Fabio
Salazar, Diego F.
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
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Waterloo
- (when)
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2024
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mancino, M. Antonella
- Morales, Leonardo Fabio
- Salazar, Diego F.
- University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
Time of origin
- 2024
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