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Get to work! Job-education mismatch and spatial mismatch evidence at the intra-urban level for a developing country
(Universidad EAFIT, 2018) Baena Castro, David; García Cruz, Gustavo Adolfo
This paper explores how job opportunities and accessibility, are linked with the mismatch between schooling years people have and the qualiﬁcations their jobs require. This problem has been both theorized as the spatial mismatch hypothesis (Kain, 1968), which claims that job accessibility and commuting costs affect labor markets outcomes, and as the job-education mismatch (Frank, 1978), which claims that not all people is employed in jobs according to its education level. We propose a simpletheoreticalmodelforthisrelationandtestempiricallyhowthesetwoconcepts are related, for the case of a city within a developing country: Medellín, Colombia. Fitting a system of equations we found that the higher public (private) transport accessibility to overeducated (undereducated) workers, the lower the job-education mismatch. Hence, accessibility seems to increase efﬁciency of labor offers.