Comparing the Employment-Output Elasticities of Expatriates and Nationals in the Gulf Cooperation Council /

We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment response is lower for nationals, who have an estimated s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Behar, Alberto
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/191
Online Access:Full text available on IMF