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Capital Humano
Todas · Econometría · Big Data · Pobreza · Macro/Sectorial · Diseño de Políticas · Experimentos
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Impacto de los Booms Petroleros en el Capital Humano: El caso de la Apertura Petrolera de Venezuela en los 90s
Contrary to the resource curse literature, exposure to oil investment raised human capital accumulation. Young people in treated municipalities acquired 0.2 additional years of schooling — comparable in magnitude to direct educational interventions such as school construction programmes — and poverty rose to 32% against…
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Crisis económica y el colapso del acervo de capital humano venezolano (Parte I)
Venezuela lost 40% of the schooling embodied in its workforce between 2015 and 2021 — some 55.3 million person-years of education withdrawn from production — alongside a third of its economically active population and 27% of its university-educated workers. Average schooling among active workers fell…
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Los Ni-Ni: Jóvenes que ni trabajan ni estudian en Venezuela
Roughly 1.76 million young Venezuelans — 30.9% of 15-to-24-year-olds — are outside both education and work, a 48.5% increase since 2015 and the highest rate in Latin America. Crucially, the collapse in school attendance was not offset by entry into the labour market: the share…