dc.contributor.author |
Mikdash, Maya Khodor, |
dc.date.accessioned |
2018-10-11T11:36:57Z |
dc.date.available |
2018-10-11T11:36:57Z |
dc.date.issued |
2018 |
dc.date.submitted |
2018 |
dc.identifier.other |
b21097525 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/21370 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of Economics, 2018. T:6812$Advisor : Dr. Nisreen Salti, Associate Professor, Economics ; Members of Committee : Dr. Hossein Radmard, Assistant Professor, Economics ; Dr. Samir Makdisi, Professor Emeritus, Economics. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-41) |
dc.description.abstract |
This paper aims at examining the effect of oil wealth on the ratio of female to male labor force participation rate as a measure of gender disparity in the labor market. There has been an ample amount of literature that investigates the resource curse in economic and political contexts. This study, following a few recent ones like that of Ross (2008), extends the literature to a social spectrum and investigates the relation between oil wealth and gender issues, specifically in the labor market. Using a country fixed-effects panel approach on a sample of 176 countries over the period 1990-2017, the results show that oil revenues have a negative effect on the outcome of interest. In particular, a 100 barrels per capita increase in oil production decreases the ratio of female to male labor force participation rate by 6-7percent. This result is highly statistically significant and is robust to alternative specifications and a variety of measures of the variables of interest. |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (x, 43 leaves) |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.subject.classification |
T:006812 |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Natural resources.$Petroleum.$Labor market.$Equality.$Labor supply.$Economics -- Sociological aspects. |
dc.title |
Oil and gender relations : a closer look at the labor market - |
dc.title.alternative |
A closer look at the labor market |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences.$Department of Economics, |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut. |