Nowadays, both the wind power and shale gas industries have been developing quickly and receiving significant attention in the media. Since wind and natural gas are competing sources of electricity generation, in order to guide policy, it would be useful to have an idea of how many jobs are created by these two competing resources. In this paper, we use a panel econometric model to estimate the...

Every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business, additional jobs might also be created, mainly through increased demand for local goods and services. This positive effect on employment is partially offset by general equilibrium effects induced by changes in local wages and prices of local services. In this paper, I estimate the long-term employment multiplier at the ...

The 2008-2009 crisis created large dislocations in the U.S. labor market: some sectors, locations, and occupations were more affected than others. As a result, researchers have been looking at the possibility of structural changes in labor market functioning, which may have created mismatches between available labor and employment opportunities; thus raising equilibrium levels of unemployment. ...

This paper estimates the effects of airport infrastructure on employment and distribution labor force in US metropolitan areas. The analysis is based models for air network its employment, which are estimated using data. Air traffic found to have a positive effect population local area, with an elasticity 0.010, so improvements induce reallocation workers between regions. also area 0.036 weakly...

The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governments have looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent research in the US suggests that net job creation in the small firm sector may have been overestimated, re...