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The impact of oil revenues on the Iranian economy and the Gulf states

Dreger, Christian; Rahmani, Teymur - 2014

In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) using...

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An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focuses on...

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On the impact of oil prices on sectoral inflation : evidence from world's top oil exporters and importers

Ben Salem, Leila; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, Christophe - 2024

This paper investigates the impact of oil price variations on sectoral inflation for a sample of 10 top oil importing and exporting countries. Specifically, we analyze the effects of oil prices on the consumer price index using monthly data spanning the July 2009 to February 2021 period. Two...

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Can the UAE avoid the oil curse by economic diversification?

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...

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What remains after the oil boom is over?

Jelnov, Pavel - 2019

This paper links between Beckerian literature that shows that marriage is a normal good with respect to male income and the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. I use the oil crisis of the 1970s as a positive shock on some males. The analyzed outcome is...

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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008

more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the paper attempted to analyse the impact of union membership on wages in the … industries. The estimated wage premiums for union membership for permanent and contract workers are 56.7 per cent and 10.3 per … cent respectively. Decomposing this wage gap indicates that union membership contributes majority of the wage differentials …

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Union membership and age : the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

inverted U-shaped pattern that has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence …

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Economic returns to Communist Party membership : evidence from urban Chinese twins

Li, Hongbin; Liu, Pak-wai; Zhang, Junsen; Ma, Ning - 2006

This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from … interpretation that Party membership not only has its own effect but also has an external effect on the sibling. -- twins ; communist … party membership ; China …

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Differences in decline : quantile regression analysis of union wage differentials in the United Kingdom, 1991 - 2003

Manquilef-Bächler, Alejandra A.; Arulampalam, Wiji; … - 2009

Wage premia related to union membership and coverage are examined over 1991-2003, a period involving first decline …-level British Household Panel Survey data and quantile regression techniques allowing for endogeneity of the membership decision …. Raw differentials suggest the presence of large positive membership and coverage premia that are stronger at the bottom of …

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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by …

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