Diferencias salariales y desajuste educativo en Colombia

Héctor Alberto Botello-Peñaloza; Isaac Guerrero-Rincón

doi:10.32397/er.vol13.n2.6

Authors

Héctor Alberto Botello-Peñaloza Universidad Industrial de Santander
Isaac Guerrero-Rincón Universidad Industrial de Santander

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32397/er.vol13.n2.6

Keywords:

Labor, human capital, Colombia, productivity, graduates

Abstract

We study the educational mismatch in the first employment of college graduates in Colombia and its wage effects, using microdata obtained from two surveys (the Longitudinal Social Protection Survey and the Ministry of Education Survey). We used the objective and subjective methodology to calculate the educational mismatch in 2012. The results show that between 22% and 35% of the graduates are overeducated in their jobs while earning up to 4% less than the adequately educated workers. These results suggest the need to foster a constant update of the theoretical contents in tertiary-education courses, in order to adjust them to fit the competence expectations of the labor market.