Browsing by Autor "Oscar Molina-Tejerina"

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Industrial Policy and Local Development With Resource Abundance
(2025) Georgina M. Gómez; Sergio Bobka; Oscar Molina-Tejerina; Edgar Adolfo Pacheco Teran; Gustavo Quispe Gemio; G. J. Andrés Uzín P.
This chapter examines the localized impacts of natural resource abundance, specifically focusing on Bolivia's natural gas sector and its effects on the Tarija department. It investigates how boom-and-bust cycles manifest regionally and assesses the effectiveness of national and subnational industrial policies in navigating these volatile economic periods. The study highlights Bolivia's historical resource dependence and the “resource curse” phenomena, including “Dutch disease.” It analyzes the government's efforts to capture and redistribute natural gas revenues for economic diversification, detailing significant investments in value-added production. Despite substantial financial influxes, particularly in Tarija, the research concludes that low institutional capacity, deficient planning, and limited private sector coordination largely hindered genuine economic diversification, perpetuating reliance on extractivism. While poverty reduction was notable, the overall objective of a diversified, resilient economy remained largely unfulfilled as the natural gas cycle declines.
UNEXPLAINED WAGE GAPS IN THE TRADABLE AND NONTRADABLE SECTORS: CROSS-SECTIONAL EVIDENCE BY GENDER IN BOLIVIA
(2021) Oscar Molina-Tejerina; Luis Castro Peñarrieta
This document analyzes the gender wage gap between in tradable and non-tradable sectors. The tradable sector is defined by the value of exports and imports in an industry based on the four-digit codes of the International Standard Industrial Classification. Based on Gary Becker's work, in an economy prone to discrimination against women, the document proposes a model from which discrimination is possible if companies generate supra-normal profits. These benefits will be determined by market power, which in turn depends on the number of companies participating in the industry, so under the assumption that tradable sectors are directly influenced by international trade and with the possibility of greater competition, this competition will generate a trend towards normal benefits, making it impossible to finance discrimination against women, so the wage gender gap should be lower in tradable than non-tradable sectors. Using the traditional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions for the 2013 Household Survey, we find that unexplained wage differences against women are significantly lower in the tradable sector, suggesting that the impact of international trade on the tradable sector helps to reduce the gender wage gap in Bolivia.