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The impact of energy booms on local workers : energy booms create widespread short-term benefits for local workers, but appropriate policy requires consideration of a broad array o...
Jacobsen, Grant D. - 2019
One of the primary considerations in policy debates related to energy development is the projected effect of resource … extraction of unconventional energy sources, such as shale gas and oil, spurring rapid development in many areas. It is thus … crucial to discuss the empirical evidence on the effect of “energy booms” on local workers, considering both the potential …
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Are Resource Booms a Blessing or a Curse? Evidence from People (not Places)
Jacobsen, Grant; Parker, Dominic P.; Winikoff, Justin - 2021
We provide the first estimates of the long-run income effects of temporary resource booms on people, rather than places, focusing on the U.S. oil boom and bust of the 1980s. Using household-level longitudinal data, we find positive effects during the boom period and negative effects during the...
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Who wins in an energy boom? : evidence from wage rates and housing
Jacobsen, Grant D. - 2016 - Revised November 2016
This paper presents evidence on the distributional effects of energy extraction by examining the recent U.S. energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657592
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Who wins in an energy boom? Evidence from wage rates and housing
Jacobsen, Grant D. - 2016
This paper presents evidence on the distributional effects of energy extraction by examining the recent U.S. energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760058
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Local labor market impacts of energy boom-bust-boom in Western Canada
Marchand, Joseph - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 1, pp. 165-174
The impacts of energy price boom and bust are analyzed through the differential growth in employment and earnings … between local labor markets with and without energy resources in Western Canada. The estimated differentials attributed to the … energy extraction and other non-energy local sectors respectively. The local job multipliers indicate that job creation …
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Technological progress and (un)employment development
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2016
One of the key issues in economics is the explanation of unemployment and its variation across different economies. Modern mainstream macroeconomics refers to the effects of financial crises and to institutional structures and their variation across countries. However, unemployment within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515639
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596136
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Technological Progress and (Un)Employment Development
Blien, Uwe - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965043
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Technological progress and regional disparities in (un)employment
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2014 - Draft of a paper
One of the key issues in economics is the explanation of unemployment and its variation across different economies. Doing so, modern mainstream macroeconomics refers to the effects of financial crises and to institutional structures and their variation across countries. However, unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503066
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Macedonia’s accession to the EU and the labor market : what can be learned from the new member states?
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2009
The paper was produced as a background paper on labor issues for the UNDP study "Convergence to the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities." It first looks at the issue of how the labor market institutions of an acceding country like Macedonia should be shaped to further the integration of...
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