Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas

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This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men and women both gain employment in the oil and gas industry during booms, but such gains are much larger for men and are largest for black and Hispanic men. We also find positive income spillovers for workers in other industries that are similar in magnitude across demographic groups.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12349

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General ; Resource Booms ; Energy: General ; General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
• Subject: oil ; natural gas ; employment ; gender ; race ; energy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cai, Zhengyu ; Maguire, Karen ; Winters, John V.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202695
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