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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; Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 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 and women both gain employment in the oil and gas industry during booms …
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Can Price Controls Be Optimal? The Economics of the Energy Shock in Germany
Krebs, Tom; Weber, Isabella - 2024
In the wake of the global energy crisis, many European countries used energy price controls to fight inflation and to stabilize the economy. Despite its wide adoption, many economists remained skeptical. In this paper, we argue that price controls should be part of the policy toolbox to respond...
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Technological Progress and (Un)employment Development
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2017
In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead to technological unemployment or to a new prosperity? In our paper it is shown formally that under general and standard preconditions the price elasticity of demand on product...
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Then and now: Reflections on two Australian mining booms
Gregory, Robert G. - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
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Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms
Gregory, Bob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294837
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Migration in the Soviet Successor States
Locher, Lilo - 2002
This paper analyzes the migration behavior of ethnic groups in the former Soviet Un-ion (FSU) from 1989 to 1999. The two main migration movements have been return migration of ethnic groups to their titular nation and migration of all ethnic groups to the Russian Federation. Using factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262623
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Migration in the Soviet Successor States
Locher, Lilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper analyzes the migration behavior of ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union (FSU) from 1989 to 1999. The two main migration movements have been return migration of ethnic groups to their titular nation and migration of all ethnic groups to the Russian Federation. Using factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566643
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The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2014
Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger a policy backlash. This has not occurred in the current recession. This paper examines three links in the chain between the slump and immigration policy. First, although...
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UN Interventions: The Role of Geography
Duque, Juan Carlos; Jetter, Michael; Sosa, Santiago - 2014
This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...
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Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...
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