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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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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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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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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 Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2015

Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative sources of energy to avoid the impact of higher fossil fuel prices and political instability in...

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On Gender Gaps and Self-Fulfilling Expectations : Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence

Rica, Sara de la - 2008

This paper considers a simple model of self-fulfilling expectations that leads to a multiple equilibrium of gender gaps in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard problems related to unobservable effort, like in most of the related literature, our model fully relies...

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A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data

Zhang, Junfu - 2007

Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship …

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Becoming an Entrepreneur

Ñopo, Hugo - 2007

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

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Determinants of Business Success : An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia M. - 2007

Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...

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