Download or read book Oil Wages and Public Expenditures in Oil Producing Regions Lessons from Alberta written by Emilson Delfino Silva and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the impact of oil-price shocks, macroeconomic factors and pipeline bottlenecks on the evolution of wages in Alberta's oil and gas sector. The aim is to understand how wage-movements are affected by economic cycles in Alberta - an oil-exporting region - to provide policy prescriptions to the industry and public sector. To our knowledge, our paper is the first to examine the impact of oil-price and macroeconomic changes, market access, and inter-sectorial effects on wage changes in Alberta's oil and gas sector. We find evidence that suggests that competition for scarce labour among oil and gas firms, construction firms and the public sector is an important aspect underlying the evolution of wages in the oil and gas industry. Other important determinants of wage movement in the industry are unemployment rates in oil and gas and construction sectors and the yields of the US Treasury bonds. We also find that the West Texas intermediate (WTI) oil-price is a crucial determinant of the key explanatory variables in the model. We use actual and future WTI prices to simulate wages in Alberta's oil and gas industry. Our analysis yields two policy prescriptions. Labour costs can be reduced with geographic labour-market segmentation. In addition, government counter-cyclical expansionary infrastructure policies can reduce labour costs and smooth the impact of oil-price fluctuations.
Download or read book Oil Wages and Public Expenditures in Oil Producing Regions Lesson from Alberta written by Emilson Delfino Silva and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the impact of oil-price shocks, macroeconomic factors and pipeline bottlenecks on the evolution of wages in Alberta's oil and gas sector. The aim is to understand how wage-movements are affected by economic cycles in Alberta - an oil-exporting region - to provide policy prescriptions to the industry and public sector. To our knowledge, our paper is the first to examine the impact of oil-price and macroeconomic changes, market access, and inter-sectorial effects on wage changes in Alberta's oil and gas sector. We find evidence that suggests that competition for scarce labour among oil and gas firms, construction firms and the public sector is an important aspect underlying the evolution of wages in the oil and gas industry. Other important determinants of wage movement in the industry are unemployment rates in oil and gas and construction sectors and the yields of the US Treasury bonds. We also find that the West Texas intermediate (WTI) oil-price is a crucial determinant of the key explanatory variables in the model. We use actual and future WTI prices to simulate wages in Alberta's oil and gas industry. Our analysis yields two policy prescriptions. Labour costs can be reduced with geographic labour-market segmentation. In addition, government counter-cyclical expansionary infrastructure policies can reduce labour costs and smooth the impact of oil-price fluctuations.
Download or read book Government Expenditure Crowding In Effect and Lack of Economic Diversification in Oil Producing Countries written by Noha H. A. Razek and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, I examine the impact of oil price shocks, government expenditure, and Chinese investments in the energy sector on Alberta's economy. The aim is to understand how government expenditures transmit oil-price changes to the economy, thereby exacerbating economic cycles in Alberta, an oil-exporting region, and to provide policy recommendations that could help Alberta benefit from future oil price drops. To my knowledge, I am the first to examine the effects of oil price changes, government expenditures, and investments from China on Alberta's economy, accounting for inter-industry and household demand effects. I find evidence that Alberta's manufacturing sector depends heavily on the oil and gas sector; government expenditure has a crowding-in effect that exacerbates economic cycles; Chinese investments in Alberta's energy sector contribute positively to Alberta's economy; and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price is an important factor. I use actual WTI values and oil future values to simulate and forecast key explanatory variables. The results are robust to different variations of the model, and when creating in-sample and out-of-sample forecasts. The results of my analyses yield three policy recommendations for Alberta: (a) implement a long-term counter-cyclical fiscal policy, preferably during a boom period; (b) diversify both the oil and gas sector (to increase petroleum product exports) and the manufacturing sector (to increase non-oil related production); and (c) open the economy to additional foreign investment.
Download or read book Energy Transition Climate Change and COVID 19 written by Fateh Belaïd and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on energy transition and climate change from an economic perspective. Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a powerful effect on multiple facets of the global economy. The unknown scope and duration of the pandemic and its associated economic shocks have made energy security and the process of clean energy transition highly unpredictable. To combat this, this edited volume presents a wide range of theoretical and empirical research at the nexus of the COVID-19 pandemic and energy, resource, and environmental economics. Chapters focus on four major themes: the impact of crises on energy security, the role of resilient energy systems in society, the challenges of clean energy transition, and economic impacts of COVID-19 on climate change. Providing rigorous analysis of an evolving situation that will continue to impact the global energy market, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of energy economics, environmental economics, and resource economics as well as policy professionals involved in climate change and energy transition.
Download or read book Covering Oil written by Svetlana Tsalik and published by Lifting the Resource Curse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revenue Watch program and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue promote transparency and civic participation in natural resource policymaking. Journalists know how hard it is to report on government management of oil, gas, and other natural resource revenues. Governments and industry are seldom forthcoming. And reporters themselves usually lack the background in economics, engineering, geology, and corporate finance helpful to understanding the energy industry and the effects of resource wealth. This book attempts to redress the balance with practical information in easy to understand language. Chapters include Understanding the Resource Curse, A Primer on Oil, Oil Companies and the International Oil Market, the ABCs of Petroleum Contracts, and the Environmental, Social, and Human Rights Impacts of Oil Development. Tip sheets inform reporters about stories to pursue and questions to ask.
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Download or read book Energy Capitals written by Joseph A. Pratt and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has occurred. With case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Africa, and Australia, this volume views a range of older and more recent energy capitals, contrasts their evolutions, and explores why some capitals were able to influence global trends in energy production and distribution while others failed to control even their own destinies. Chapters show how local and national politics, social structures, technological advantages, education systems, capital, infrastructure, labor force, supply and demand, and other factors have affected the ability of a region to develop and control its own fossil fuel reserves. The contributors also view the environmental impact of energy industries and demonstrate how, in the depletion of reserves or a shift to new energy sources, regions have or have not been able to recover economically. The cities of Tampico, Mexico, and Port Gentil, Gabon, have seen their oil deposits exploited by international companies with little or nothing to show in return and at a high cost environmentally. At the opposite extreme, Houston, Texas, has witnessed great economic gain from its oil, natural gas, and petrochemical industries. Its growth, however, has been tempered by the immense strain on infrastructure and the human transformation of the natural environment. In another scenario, Perth, Australia, Calgary, Alberta, and Stavanger, Norway have benefitted as the closest established cities with administrative and financial assets for energy production that was developed hundreds of miles away. Whether coal, oil, or natural gas, the essays offer important lessons learned over time and future considerations for the best ways to capture the benefits of energy development while limiting the cost to local populations and environments.
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