This paper conducts a descriptive statistical analysis of employment in Azerbaijan covering the period between 2000 and 2018 to study the effects of the Dutch disease hypothesis. Azerbaijan has been a research subject of the Dutch disease due to the boom in the oil sector since independence from...

From the first half of the 2000s until 2014 the Colombian economy was under the influence of an oil and mining production and export boom that triggered the potential for Dutch Disease effects. As the boom has the potential to induce shifts in the sectorial composition of the economy, it may...

Violent conflict is common among the poorest countries and clearly one of the most important barriers to growth, destroying physical, human, and social capital, often in the long run. At the same time, it is a development `trap' that is not easy to escape from as poverty has also been found to...

The objective of this paper is to explore the evolution of mining employment patterns throughout Australia’s mining cycle. The study employs a real business cycle model to examine mining employment activities both before and after the mining boom. It also attempts to shed light on the research...