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Unraveling the Network of the Extractive Industries

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  • Balza, Lenin
  • De Los Rios, Camilo
  • Guerra, Alfredo
  • Herrera-Prada, Luis
  • Manzano, Osmel

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This paper analyzes extractive industries in Colombia and their connections to other economic activities in the country. We use detailed social security data on all formal employees to create an industry-relatedness measure using labor flows between industries. Drawing on the vast network analysis literature, we exploit centrality measures to reveal the importance of the extractive sector among Colombian industries. Our results show that extractive industries are well connected within the Colombian industrial network, and that they are central overall and within their clusters. We also find that extractive industries have stronger linkages with manufacturing and agriculture than with other sectors. Finally, a higher relatedness to extractive activities is correlated with lower levels of employment, specially of female workers.

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  • Balza, Lenin & De Los Rios, Camilo & Guerra, Alfredo & Herrera-Prada, Luis & Manzano, Osmel, 2021. "Unraveling the Network of the Extractive Industries," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 11158, Inter-American Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:idb:brikps:11158
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003191
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    2. Balza, Lenin H. & De Los Rios, Camilo & Jimenez Mori, Raul & Manzano, Osmel, 2025. "The local human capital costs of oil exploitation," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • Q30 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • C65 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Miscellaneous Mathematical Tools

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