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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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Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas

Cai, Zhengyu - 2019

This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...

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An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - 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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Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - 2009

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 focus on short...

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The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States

Dreger, Christian - 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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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?

Haouas, Ilham - 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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The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador

Molina, Teresa - 2020

This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We …

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Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadorian Labor Market

Olivieri, Sergio - 2020

Ecuador has become the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans that left their country in the last five … educational credentials, would increase Ecuador's GDP between 1.6% and 1.9% and alleviate the pressure on disadvantaged native …

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The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador

Olivieri, Sergio - 2020

As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans have passed through Ecuador and over 400,000 settled in, which amounts to … almost 3% of Ecuador's population. This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants within Ecuador and the … labor market consequences of these choices, using data from Ecuador's labor force survey (ENEMDU) and mobile phone records …

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Information Frictions and Learning Dynamics : Evidence from Tax Avoidance in Ecuador

Bohne, Albrecht - 2018

administrative data on the universe of taxpayers in Ecuador and the introduction of generous tax deduction policies. Key to the …

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