This paper argues that hydrocarbon producers with high rents per capita constitute a specific category in the broader universe of rent-dependent countries, facing a specific set of development challenges that are not shared by mid-rent countries. It surveys patterns of rent distribution in high-rent countries (HRCs), focusing on energy subsidies and excessive public employment, and argues that these result in declining energy efficiency and labor productivity as well as exclusion of nationals from the private labor market. It then proposes unconditional cash grants for HRC citizens in combination with subsidy and public employment reform as a mitigation strategy to minimize the HRC-specific distortive effects of rent distribution. It is shown that none of the conventional counterarguments to unconditional cash grants applies in the context of HRCs.

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在高租金国家提高财富共享效率：公民的收入

本文认为，人均租金较高的碳氢化合物生产商在租金依赖型国家的更广泛领域中属于特定类别，面临着一系列特定的发展挑战，而中租国却没有。它对高租金国家（HRC）的租金分配模式进行了调查，重点关注能源补贴和过度的公共就业，并认为这导致能源效率和劳动生产率下降以及国民被排斥在私人劳动力市场之外。然后，它提出了一项针对热轧卷公民的无条件现金补助金，并结合补贴和公共就业改革作为缓解策略，以最大程度地减少热轧卷特定的租金分配扭曲效应。结果表明，对无条件现金赠款的传统反驳都没有适用于人力资源委员会。