Oil and Gas: A Blessing for the Few. Hydrocarbons and Inequality within Regions in Russia

Buccellato, Tullio; Mickiewicz, Tomasz

doi:10.1080/09668130902753275

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“…For Mexico, López-Feldman et al (2007) documented increased resource income somewhat lowering inequality and poverty, but resource income was itself unequally distributed. For Russia, Buccellato and Mickiewicz (2009) showed that oil and gas abundance led to local level inequality. Caselli and Michaels (2009) found that oil may have reduced poverty in Brazil, but the results were not robust.…”

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confidence: 99%

The distributional impacts of an energy boom in Western Canada

Marchand

2015

Canadian J of Economics

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In the energy-rich provinces of Western Canada, inequality rose over the past two decades while poverty declined, raising the question of whether the recent energy boom was a contributing factor. This study uses local labour market variation in energy extraction intensity to identify these distributional impacts. The growth in local outcomes attributable to the boom is found to be U-shaped and significant across all distributional segments, leading to somewhat increased local inequality aggregates and reduced local poverty. This pattern is preserved but varies across sectors, driving a large local inequality increase in energy extraction, with smaller rises and reductions in other industries. Résumé. Les effets de répartition d'un booménergétique dans l'Ouest canadien.Dans les provinces riches enénergie de l'Ouest canadien, les inégalités se sont accrues au cours des deux dernières décennies pendant que la pauvreté déclinait, sans qu'on puisse toujours dire si le booménergétiqueétait un facteur explicatif important. Cetteétude utilise un marché local du travail, soumisà des variations dans l'intensité de l'extraction de l'énergie, pour identifier les effets de répartition. On découvre que la croissance des effets locaux attribuables au boom suit un pattern en U, et est significatifà travers tous les segments de répartition. Voilà qui a menéà une inégalité quelque peu accrue dans les agrégats locaux maisà une pauvreté locale diminuée. Le pattern se répète dans tous les secteurs, mais varie selon les secteurs, ce qui enclenche un grand accroissement dans l'inégalité locale dans l'extraction de l'énergie, et des croissances et déclins plus faibles dans les autres industries.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The distributional impacts of an energy boom in Western Canada

Marchand

2015

Canadian J of Economics

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“…Angrist and Kugler (2008) find that dependence on coca production and associated rent-seeking explains differences in the extent of civil conflict across Colombian regions. Withinregion income inequality can also be associated with regional oil and gas abundance (see the empirical analysis across Russian regions by Buccellato and Mickiewitz, 2009). Deaton and Niman (2012) make use of county data from the Appalachian region to show how mineral dependence increases poverty rates in the longer term (although it tends to have the opposite effect in the short term).…”

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confidence: 99%

The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels

Gilberthorpe

Papyrakis

2015

The Extractive Industries and Society

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The resource curse literature has necessarily evolved in a rather fragmented way.While economists, political economists and political scientists have largely focused on the role of mineral abundance in long-term growth with the analysis largely confined to the country (macro) or regional (meso) level, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists have explored the development impacts of extractive industries at the community (micro) level. While this has provided a rigorous and comprehensive exploration of extractive industries and their impacts, causal factors that bridge and/or leap-frog these levels tend not to be accounted for.In this paper we examine the evolution of literature across disciplinary lines and different levels of scale to assess the current status of resource curse debates. In so doing, we aim to explore how an integration of the various multi-scale approaches can help address the persistent problem of the resource curse.

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“…As a result, large, politically connected enterprises dominate Russia's business landscape. Moreover, the lack of universal property rights is reflected by the uneven distribution of income, and Russia is plagued by some of the most extreme social differences and pockets of dire poverty (Glaeser et al 2003;Gerry et al 2008;Buccellato and Mickiewicz 2009).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship In Russiamentioning

confidence: 99%