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Labor Demand Responses to Changing Gas Prices
Bossler, Mario; Moog, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten - 2023
2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas price elasticity of labor demand of −0.02, likely reflecting a scale … effect. We also show that a rise in the gas price leads to an increase in establishment closure. A negative impact of the gas … price on wages of 2 percent is consistent with rent-sharing …
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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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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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Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being
Maguire, Karen - 2016
The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both benefits and costs, but the net effects for local...
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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country
Cesur, Resul - 2016
There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...
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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
Venezuela), plus Indonesia which is a former member, and Mexico and Norway, which are members of the OECD. Overall, the test … OPEC members, which lie in the range of 45 to 125 years. For Indonesia, whose share of oil income in GDP has been declining …
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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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Black Empowerment and White Mobilization : The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - 2023
The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we...
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