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Resource curse avoidance: governmental intervention and wage formation in the Norwegian petroleum sector

Author(s) -

Jan Morten Dyrstad

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

oxford economic papers

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68

H-Index - 69

eISSN - 1464-3812

pISSN - 0030-7653

DOI - 10.1093/oep/gpw053

Subject(s) - resource curse , wage , intervention (counseling) , economics , insider , curse , norwegian , resource (disambiguation) , dutch disease , labour economics , natural resource , monetary economics , exchange rate , political science , computer network , philosophy , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology , computer science , law , psychology , linguistics

A likely channel for Dutch disease turning a presumably blessing resource windfall into a curse, is the wage formation process. By utilizing the shift from decentralized and uncoordinated wage bargaining in the Norwegian petroleum sector to co-ordinated bargaining, this paper analyzes the effectiveness of a governmental intervention aimed at preventing the extraordinary petroleum wage inflation to become detrimental to the economy. The empirical analysis shows that the intervention was successful as insider weights and insider hysteresis effects were effectively reduced, and that the system of coordinated wage bargaining was re-established. The principal conclusion is that institutions and institutional setting play a crucial role in avoiding adverse economic development.

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