Brecha de habilidades en Bolivia: Un freno a la empleabilidad de las personas y a la productividad de las empresas

The impact of university reputation on employment opportunities: Experimental evidence from Bolivia

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical proof of the importance of perceived quality of educational credentials as a key determinant of opportunities to enter the formal sector of the Bolivian labour market. In that sense, our results complement a host of studies showing that quantity of education – regularly measured by years of schooling – has very limited explanatory power of labour market outcome differentials (Bagolle et al, 2019; Lizarraga, 2015; Urquidi et al, 2020). Our results prove that educational credentials are, indeed, highly heterogeneous from the recruiters’ viewpoint.…”

“…The key issue is that the growing competition in the higher education market constantly increases the heterogeneous nature of graduates’ educational credentials. In an increasingly diverse and competitive market for higher education, universities tend to be particularly responsive to potential employers’ requirements (Bonilla et al, 2019; Hastings et al, 2015; Rodríguez et al, 2016). Bolivian universities are offering an increasingly diverse range of programmes, seeking to make them appealing through innovative content, and advertising them widely in an attempt to increase their share of prospective students (Urquidi et al, 2020 Bagolle et al, 2019).…”