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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w29283 |
来源ID | Working Paper 29283 |
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia | |
Patricia Cortés; Semiray Kasoolu; Carolina Pan | |
发表日期 | 2021-09-27 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In the last decade, Gulf countries have imposed hiring quotas to promote the participation of natives in the private sector and address high levels of unemployment, particularly among women and the youth. This paper explores how one such policy, Nitaqat in Saudi Arabia, affected the outcomes of exporting firms, the most productive sector of the non-oil economy. We find that whereas the policy was successful in increasing the employment of Saudi nationals by these firms, it came at a high cost. In the year following the announcement of the policy, relative to firms above the quota, firms below the quota were 1.5 percentage points more likely to exit the market, 7 percentage points less likely to export, and conditional on exporting, the value of their exports fell by 14 percent. Additionally, surviving treated firms reduced their labor force by 10 percent. We find that to comply with the policy, firms hired mostly lower-wage, low-skilled Saudis. The policy doubled the share of women in treated firms. Importantly, we find that these short-term effects persisted for at least three years after the policy’s implementation. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Unemployment and Immigration |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29283 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586957 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Patricia Cortés,Semiray Kasoolu,Carolina Pan. Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia. 2021. |
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