In Search of Better Opportunities : Sorting and Agglomeration Effects among Young College Graduates in Colombia (English)

This paper studies the dynamic sorting of workers prior to labor market entry that leads to skill differences across cities of different sizes, as well as its consequences on the estimation of agglomeration effects. Using rich administrative data for young, college-educated workers in Colombia, the paper shows that the most talented and best trained sort to big cities primarily because they attend college there and remain for work. The availability...

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Bacolod,Marigee;

De la Roca,Jorge;

Ferreyra,Maria Marta;
Document Date
2020/10/08
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9433
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Colombia,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2020/10/08
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
In Search of Better Opportunities : Sorting and Agglomeration Effects among Young College Graduates in Colombia
Keywords
big city

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Bacolod,Marigee; De la Roca,Jorge; Ferreyra,Maria Marta.

In Search of Better Opportunities : Sorting and Agglomeration Effects among Young College Graduates in Colombia (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9433 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/301431602185301689

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