Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237485 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01201
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Network Analysis
Extractive Industries
Labor Flows
Latin America
JEL: 
C65
J24
O54
Q30
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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