Publications – Usamah F. Alfarhan

Peer-reviewed:

Nusair, K., Karatepe, O., Okumus, F., Alfarhan U.F., Shi, F. (2024) “Exploring the pivotal role of community engagement on tourists’ behaviors in social media: A cross-national study“. International Journal of Information Management, 74.

Alfarhan U.F., Nusair, K., Okumus, F., Nikhashemi S.R. (2023) “Identifying structural asymmetries by jointly estimating tourism expenditure intensity and extensity“. Tourism Economics. DOI: 10.1177/13548166231204668.

Nusair, K., Okumus, F., Karatepe, O.M., Alfarhan, U.F., de Larrea, G.L. (2023). “From tourist motivations to buying decisions: A multilevel engagement perspective“. Tourism Management Perspectives, 48, 101148.

Alfarhan, U.F., Olya, H., Nusair, K. (2023). “How do prosperity and aspiration underlie leisure tourism expenditure patterns?” Tourism Economics, 29(3), pp. 842–849.

Alfarhan, U. F., Nusair, K., Al-Azri, H., Al-Muharrami, S. (2022). “Modeling expenditure differentials of international tourists by targeted utility: A synthesized theoretical and quantile decomposition approach”. International Journal of Consumer Studies. 46(1), pp. 324 – 344.

Alfarhan, U. F., Nusair, K. (2022) “First-time, first-repeat and multiple-repeat visitors: A conditional counterfactual quantile expenditure decomposition analysis”. Current Issues in Tourism. 25(15), pp. 2377–2383.

Alfarhan, U. F., Nusair, K., Al-Azri, H., Al-Muharrami, S, Hua, N. (2022). “Measuring the effects of tourists’ relative willingness to spend and third-degree price discrimination on inbound tourism expenditure differentials”. Tourism Economics. 28(8), pp. 2126–2153.

Nusair, K., Al-Azri, H., Alfarhan, U. F., Al-Muharrami, S., Nikhashemi, S.R. (2022). “Strategic capabilities and firm performance in Omani manufacturing and Service SMEs”. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. 14(6), pp. 1118–1142.

Nusair, K., Al-Azri, H., Alfarhan, U. F., Al-Muharrami, S. (2022). “Towards an understanding of segmentation strategies in international tourism marketing: The moderating effects of advertising media types and nationality”. Review of International Business and Strategy. 32(3), pp. 346–367.

Alfarhan, U. F., and Al-Busaidi, S. (2020). “Women’s earnings between migration status and glass ceilings: A double penalty?”. Applied Economics Letters. 27(8), pp. 629 – 632.

Alfarhan, U. F., and Al-Busaidi, S. (2019). “Migrant earnings gaps in the GCC: Perceptions or opportunity costs?”. International Labour Review, 158(2), pp. 273-295.

Alfarhan, U. F., and Dauletova, V. (2019). “ Revisiting the gender academic achievement gap: Evidence from a unique environment.” Gender and Education, 31(7), pp. 827-848.

Taylor, G., Al-Hadi A., Richardson, G., Alfarhan, U. F., Al-Yahyaee, K. (2019). “Is there a relation between labor investment inefficiency and corporate tax avoidance?”. Economic Modelling, 82, pp. 185-201.

Alfarhan, U. F., and Al-Busaidi, S. (2018). “A “Catch-22”: Self-inflicted failure of GCC nationalization policies”. International Journal of Manpower, 39(4), pp. 637-655.

Alfarhan, U. F. (2015). “Gender earnings discrimination in Jordan: Good intentions are not enough” International Labour Review, Vol. 154, No. 4, pp. 563-580.

Alfarhan, U. F. (2015). “The public earnings premium in a mineral rich economy: New piece in the puzzle”. Journal of Economic and Financial Studies, 3(1), pp. 12-27.

Al-Awran, A., and Alfarhan, U. F. (2005). “Determinants of interest rates in the Jordanian economy: An analytical study for the period 1990 – 2002” Journal of the Social Sciences, 33(2), pp. 377-405.

Working papers and book chapters:

Usamah Alfarhan. Layers of Segmentation in GCC’s Labour Markets: How Well Do Migrant Women Fare? Explanatory Note No. 2/2022, Gulf Labour Markets, Migration and Population Programme (GLMM) of Gulf Research Center (GRC). Accessible at: https://gulfmigration.grc.net/media/pubs/exno/Alfarhan%20-%20Layers%20of%20Segmentation%20-%20Final%20-%202022-06-30.pdf

Earnings Differentials and Nationalisation Policies in GCC’s Private Sector Labour Market. By Usamah F. Afarhan in Migration to the Gulf: Policies in Sending and Receiving Countries. Edited by Philippe Fargues and Nasra M. Shah, Gulf Research Center, Cambridge (2018). Accessible at: https://gulfmigration.grc.net/media/pubs/book/grm2017book_chapter/Volume%20-%20Migration%20to%20Gulf%20-%20Chapter%2012.pdf

Françoise De Bel-Air, Nasra M. Shah, Philippe Fargues, and Usamah Alfarhan. Possible Impact of Saudi Women Driving on Female Employment and Reliance on Foreign Workers. Explanatory Note No. 4/2017, Gulf Labour Market and Migration (GLMM) programme of the Migration Policy Center (MPC) and the Gulf Research Center (GRC). Accessible at: https://gulfmigration.grc.net/media/pubs/exno/GLMM_EN_2017_04.pdf

Public Expenditure Perspectives. 2011. Produced for the United States Agency for International Development by DAI for the Fiscal Reform II Project, contract no. EEM-I-00-07-00009-00, order no. EEM-I-08-07-00009-00. Accessible at: https://gbd.gov.jo/Uploads/Files/frp2/public-expendeture-perspetives-en.pdf

Alfarhan, Usamah Fayez. (2010). Changes in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany during a Period of Rising Wage Inequality 1999-2006: Was it Discrimination in the Returns to Human Capital? SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, No. 293, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin. Accessible at: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/150838/1/diw_sp0293.pdf

Alfarhan, Usamah Fayez. (2010). A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection. SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, No. 269, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin. Accessible at: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/150815/1/diw_sp0269.pdf