Unexplained Wage Gaps in the Tradable and Nontradable Sectors: Cross-Sectional Evidence by Gender in Bolivia
Luis Castro-Peñarrieta, Profesor Investigador Titular de la División de Economía del CIDE, y Oscar Molina-Tejerina escribieron el artículo Unexplained Wage Gaps in the Tradable and Nontradable Sectors: Cross-Sectional Evidence by Gender in Bolivia en la revista Investigación & Desarrollo. Abstract This document analyzes the gender wage gap between in tradable and non-tradable sectors. The tradable sector is
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Skills versus Luck: Bolivia and its recent Bonanza | Latin American Economic Review
This paper uses different approaches to determine the contribution of internal policies and external factors on the good performance of the Bolivian economy in the recent past. It is demonstrated that the extremely favorable external conditions are mainly responsible for its bonanza, and that the domestic policies have, probably, caused more harm, than good. The
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The effect of coca and FDI on the level of corruption in Bolivia
This paper written by Antonio N. Bojanic analyzes the causes of corruption in contemporary Bolivia. It argues that, along with the well-documented observation that richer countries tend, on average, to be less corrupt than poorer ones, corruption is directly dependent on FDI inflows, with higher levels of FDI associated with lower levels of corruption and
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