Elsy Lorena Rosero Ceballos, a graduate of the Economics program and current fellow of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) of Mexico, was highlighted for her Master's thesis in Applied Economics.

Elsy Lorena Rosero Ceballos, a graduate of the Economics program and member of the Research Seedbed of the “Entropía” Group of the University of Cauca, received an award for her Master's thesis in Applied Economics, entitled “Economic performance of Colombian immigrants in the US labor market”.

The research work that was highlighted by the “Colegio de la Frontera Norte” (Tijuana, Baja California) where Elsy Lorena Rosero Ceballos was a fellow of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) of Mexico, addresses the factors in the economic performance of Colombian immigrants in the American labor market and wage gaps.

Colombian immigration to the United States has been increasing over time. This group is the seventh most important Hispanic population in the United States and through different studies it has been noted that their economic performance is inadequate.

“The objective of this thesis is to analyze the factors that affect the economic performance of Colombian immigrants in the US labor market. The neoclassical theory and new theories explain the importance of the level of human capital, discrimination and the impact of social networks in the assimilation process of immigrants”, reads the scientific document.

The methodology used to analyze job placement is the estimation of a linear probability model. And the wage gaps between Colombian immigrants and both white and Afro-descendant Americans are studied through the breakdown of Oaxaca and Blinder (1973). These estimates are constructed using the American Community Survey for the five-year period between 2014 and 2018.

“The results show that Colombian immigrants have a greater share of access to the labor market compared to Americans. And the wage breakdown shows that these immigrants receive lower wages than non-Hispanic native whites, but receive higher wages than African Americans. "

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