Venezuela Before Chávez : Anatomy of an Economic Collapse

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse? -- 2 Venezuela After a Century of Oil Exploitation -- 3 Public Investment and Productivity Growth in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Industry -- 4 The Incidence of Labor Market Reforms on Emp...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse? -- 2 Venezuela After a Century of Oil Exploitation -- 3 Public Investment and Productivity Growth in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Industry -- 4 The Incidence of Labor Market Reforms on Employment in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Sector, 1995–2001 -- 5 Understanding Economic Growth in Venezuela, 1970–2005: The Real Effects of a Financial Collapse -- 6 Much Higher Schooling, Much Lower Wages: Human Capital and Economic Collapse in Venezuela -- 7 Income Distribution and Redistribution in Venezuela -- 8 Competing for Jobs or Creating Jobs? The Impact of Immigration on Native-Born Unemployment in Venezuela, 1980–2003 -- 9 Sleeping in the Bed One Makes: The Venezuelan Fiscal Policy Response to the Oil Boom -- 10 Institutional Collapse: The Rise and Decline of Democratic Governance in Venezuela -- 11 The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Venezuela -- 12 Explaining Chavismo: The Unexpected Alliance of Radical Leftists and the Military in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez -- 13 Oil, Macro Volatility, and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela -- 14 Understanding the Collapse: Venezuela’s Experience in Cross-National Perspective -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung