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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Challenges and Evidence from Colombia / Maria Marta Ferreyra.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Ferreyra, Maria Marta.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education.
- Employment and Unemployment.
- Higher Education.
- Labor Market.
- Labor Skills.
- Skills Development and Labor Force Training.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Tertiary Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Education.
- Employment and Unemployment.
- Higher Education.
- Labor Market.
- Labor Skills.
- Skills Development and Labor Force Training.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Tertiary Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (37 pages)
- Other Title:
- Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper estimates the labor market effects of enrolling in a short-cycle program in Colombia. Following evidence for the U.S., increasing access to short-cycle degrees might attract some students who would not have enrolled in higher education otherwise (i.e., the expansion or democratization margin), while also inducing other students to divert from bachelor's- and into short-cycle- degrees (i.e., the diversion margin). To identify responses along these margins, this paper uses an Instrumental Variables strategy and exploits local variation in the supply of short-cycle programs for the universe of high school graduates in 2005. Having at least one higher education institution specialized in short-cycle degrees within a 10 km radius of the student's high school municipality increases enrollment in short-cycle programs by 3 percentage points, or 30 percent of the sample average. Results indicate that this enrollment increase is largely driven by students who would divert from bachelor's to short-cycle degrees due to changes in the local supply of short-cycle program. For these students, SCPs improve participation in the formal labor market among females, although they lead to lower monthly wages among males.
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