Do windfalls from the extractive sector help developing countries invest in human capital? To date, empirical studies remain inconclusive. Using Bolivia as a case study, this chapter examines the specific political-economic dynamics that led the country to increase spending on education yet at the same time failed to build a skilled workforce. Overall, the study finds that while the mining sector continued to seek unskilled, cheap labour, the capital-intensive hydrocarbon sector, for its part, developed on-the-job training programmes. Meanwhile, education policies failed to anticipate evolving demand from the labour market. As a result, vocational training suffered, a situation further compounded by efforts of powerful groups in the educati...
The drive towards higher levels of productivity forces companies to pursue economies of sc...
Graduation date: 2010The Bolivian government is using a portion of the rent generated from its fossi...
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational le...
Do windfalls from the extractive sector help developing countries invest in human capital? To date, ...
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of nat...
A study of talent shortages and talent surpluses in the mining industry in various South American na...
How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? We exploit time and spatial variation gener...
We analyze the emergence of large-scale education systems in a framework where growth is associated ...
Raising labor productivity is recognized as a critical factor for increasing economic growth and red...
During the last two decades of the 20th Century the economic reality of many Latin American nations ...
En este trabajo se analiza la emergencia de sistemas de educación de gran escala en un marco donde e...
We analyze the emergence of large-scale education systems in a framework where growth is associated ...
In the last 10 years, Latin America and especially Bolivia has experienced a period of unprecedented...
Artículo de revistaThe data from the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Comp...
Bolivia has suffered from a series of investment constraints and negative productivity cycles in the...
The drive towards higher levels of productivity forces companies to pursue economies of sc...
Graduation date: 2010The Bolivian government is using a portion of the rent generated from its fossi...
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational le...
Do windfalls from the extractive sector help developing countries invest in human capital? To date, ...
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of nat...
A study of talent shortages and talent surpluses in the mining industry in various South American na...
How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? We exploit time and spatial variation gener...
We analyze the emergence of large-scale education systems in a framework where growth is associated ...
Raising labor productivity is recognized as a critical factor for increasing economic growth and red...
During the last two decades of the 20th Century the economic reality of many Latin American nations ...
En este trabajo se analiza la emergencia de sistemas de educación de gran escala en un marco donde e...
We analyze the emergence of large-scale education systems in a framework where growth is associated ...
In the last 10 years, Latin America and especially Bolivia has experienced a period of unprecedented...
Artículo de revistaThe data from the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Comp...
Bolivia has suffered from a series of investment constraints and negative productivity cycles in the...
The drive towards higher levels of productivity forces companies to pursue economies of sc...
Graduation date: 2010The Bolivian government is using a portion of the rent generated from its fossi...
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational le...