Merit-based competitions for entry into the Colombian administrative career: an obstacle to youth transitions into the labour context
The Social State of Law, currently in force in Colombia, mandates that all individuals should be able to fully exercise their rights beyond mere formal written provisions. To this end, various strategies have been structured to contribute to personal, familial, and socio-economic development, among...
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Colombian Administrative Career; Merit-based Competitions; Youth Transitions; Labour Context; Legal barriers. carrera administrativa colombiana; concursos de mérito; transiciones juveniles; contexto laboral; obstáculos legales. carrera administrativa colombiana concursos de mérito transições juvenis contexto laboral obstáculos legais |
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Colombian Administrative Career; Merit-based Competitions; Youth Transitions; Labour Context; Legal barriers. carrera administrativa colombiana; concursos de mérito; transiciones juveniles; contexto laboral; obstáculos legales. carrera administrativa colombiana concursos de mérito transições juvenis contexto laboral obstáculos legais Perilla Granados, Juan Sebastián Alejandro Merit-based competitions for entry into the Colombian administrative career: an obstacle to youth transitions into the labour context |
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The Social State of Law, currently in force in Colombia, mandates that all individuals should be able to fully exercise their rights beyond mere formal written provisions. To this end, various strategies have been structured to contribute to personal, familial, and socio-economic development, among others. One of these strategies focuses on opportunities for access to public employment, through merit-based public competitions that enable the filling of positions within the administrative career. However, these competitions apply a uniform approach without a differential perspective for both young adults and adults. Therefore, the present article sets forth the following general research objective: to determine whether merit-based competitions for access to public employment within the Colombian State can be understood as an obstacle, rooted in natural variables such as age, to facilitate the current labour market transitions of young people. Grounded in a hermeneutic, socio-critical research approach, using qualitative methods that include documentary review, the study concludes that certain criteria employed to assess young adults in merit-based public competitions result in structural inequities that hinder youth labour transitions in the public sector context. Consequently, the article suggests strengthening strategies, including reasonable adjustments informed by differential approaches and the segmented application of merit based on age-related criteria. |
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I26-R133-article-142382025-12-26T20:57:10Z Merit-based competitions for entry into the Colombian administrative career: an obstacle to youth transitions into the labour context Los concursos de mérito para ingresar a la carrera administrativa colombiana: obstáculo para las transiciones juveniles al contexto laboral Perilla Granados, Juan Sebastián Alejandro Colombian Administrative Career; Merit-based Competitions; Youth Transitions; Labour Context; Legal barriers. carrera administrativa colombiana; concursos de mérito; transiciones juveniles; contexto laboral; obstáculos legales. carrera administrativa colombiana concursos de mérito transições juvenis contexto laboral obstáculos legais The Social State of Law, currently in force in Colombia, mandates that all individuals should be able to fully exercise their rights beyond mere formal written provisions. To this end, various strategies have been structured to contribute to personal, familial, and socio-economic development, among others. One of these strategies focuses on opportunities for access to public employment, through merit-based public competitions that enable the filling of positions within the administrative career. However, these competitions apply a uniform approach without a differential perspective for both young adults and adults. Therefore, the present article sets forth the following general research objective: to determine whether merit-based competitions for access to public employment within the Colombian State can be understood as an obstacle, rooted in natural variables such as age, to facilitate the current labour market transitions of young people. Grounded in a hermeneutic, socio-critical research approach, using qualitative methods that include documentary review, the study concludes that certain criteria employed to assess young adults in merit-based public competitions result in structural inequities that hinder youth labour transitions in the public sector context. Consequently, the article suggests strengthening strategies, including reasonable adjustments informed by differential approaches and the segmented application of merit based on age-related criteria. El Estado Social de Derecho, vigente actualmente en Colombia, exige que todas las personas puedan ejercer plenamente sus derechos más allá de la formalidad escrita. Para ello, se han estructurado diferentes estrategias que aporten al desarrollo personal, familiar, socioeconómico, entre otros. Una de estas estrategias se ubica en las oportunidades de acceso al empleo estatal, a través de concursos públicos de méritos que permiten proveer los cargos propios de la carrera administrativa y se da un tratamiento sin enfoque diferencial tanto a los jóvenes adultos como a los adultos. Por ello, el presente artículo acoge el siguiente objetivo general de investigación: determinar si los concursos de mérito para el acceso al empleo público en el Estado Colombiano pueden ser entendidos como un obstáculo fundamentado en variables naturales como la edad para materializar transiciones juveniles al mercado laboral en la actualidad. Con fundamento en un enfoque de investigación hermenéutico sociocrítico, basado en métodos cualitativos que incluyen revisión documental, se concluyó que algunos de los criterios utilizados para evaluar a los jóvenes adultos en los concursos públicos de méritos conllevan inequidades estructurales que afectan las transiciones laborales juveniles en el contexto estatal, por lo cual se sugieren estrategias de fortalecimiento que incluyen ajustes razonables desde enfoques diferenciales y que incluyen el mérito segmentado por criterios etarios. Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2025-04-02 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion TEXTO TEXT TEXTO application/pdf https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/14238 10.14409/j1bs1f83 Revista Eurolatinoamericana de Direito Administrativo; v. 12 n. 1 (2025): janeiro/Junho; e285 Euro-Latin American Journal of Administrative Law; Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025): January/June; e285 Revista Eurolatinoamericana de Derecho Administrativo; Vol. 12 Núm. 1 (2025): enero/junio; e285 2362-583X 10.14409/redoeda.v12i1 en https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/index/article/view/14238/20986 Derechos de autor 2025 JUAN SEBASTIAN ALEJANDRO PERILLA GRANADOS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |