| Don’t It Make My Brown Jobs Green? What Renewable Energy Means for Jobs and Job QualityThe employment implications of the energy industry are in transition.
• Counts of energy jobs—brown and green—vary widely depending upon sources.
• Natural gas overtook coal as the most produced energy good around 2010, and oil overtook coal just a few years after that.
• While energy production and consumption will remain brown until about 2040, “jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency generate three times more additional jobs than do jobs in fossil fuels.”
• One comparison of green jobs versus all other non-green jobs found a green wage premium of about 4 percent. | Publication | 2017-12-31 | Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Alberta Centre for Labour Market Research Grant | Award | 2023-09-01 | Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| (Joint) Society of Labor Economists and European Association of Labor Economists, Berlin, Germany, 2020-06-26"Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards" | Activity | 2020-06-26 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Dana Andersen" |
| Allied Social Science Associations, Annual Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 2022-01-07"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2022-01-07 | "Sebastian Fossati", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Denver, CO, USA, 2019-11-09"Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards" | Activity | 2019-11-09 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Dana Andersen" |
| Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Fall Research Conference, Austin, TX, USA, 2022-03-29"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2022-03-29 | "Sebastian Fossati", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, USA, 2018-11-08"The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers" | Activity | 2018-11-08 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Jeremy Weber" |
| Canadian Economics Association, Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2022-06-03"Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust" | Activity | 2022-06-03 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Kevin Milligan" |
| Canadian Economics Association, Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2021-06-05"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2021-06-05 | "Sebastian Fossati", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Canadian Labour Economics Forum, Online Seminar, 2022-10-22"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2022-10-22 | "Fossati, S.", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Eastern Economics Association, Annual Conference, 2023-02-25"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2023-02-25 | "Fossati, S.", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Economics Society of Northern Alberta, Annual Conference, 2022-12-08"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2022-12-08 | "Fossati, S.", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| First to $15: Alberta’s minimum wage policy on employment by wages, ages, and places | Activity | 2023-06-01 | Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| First to $15: Alberta’s minimum wage policy on employment by wages, ages, and places | Activity | 2023-11-01 | Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Labor and Employment Relations Association, Annual Conference, Detroit, MI, USA, 2021-06-05"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2021-06-05 | "Sebastian Fossati", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Labor and Employment Relations Association, Portland, OR, USA, 2020-06-15"Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards" | Activity | 2020-06-15 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Dana Andersen" |
| Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards"Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards" | Activity | 2019-05-31 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Dana Andersen" |
| Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards"Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards" | Activity | 2019-09-11 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Dana Andersen" |
| Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards"Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards" | Activity | 2019-11-24 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Dana Andersen" |
| London School of Economics and Political Science, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK, 2019-10-02"Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards" | Activity | 2019-10-02 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Dana Andersen" |
| National Bureau of Economic Research, Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2020-07-17"Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust" | Activity | 2020-07-17 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Kevin Milligan" |
| Royal Economic Society, Annual Conference, Belfast, N. Ireland, UK, 2021-04-13"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2021-04-13 | "Sebastian Fossati", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Society of Labor Economists, Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2022-05-07"Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust" | Activity | 2022-05-07 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Kevin Milligan" |
| Society of Labor Economists, Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2022-05-15"First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places" | Activity | 2021-05-15 | "Sebastian Fossati", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers"The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers" | Activity | 2018-01-05 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Jeremy Weber" |
| The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers"The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers" | Activity | 2018-05-05 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Jeremy Weber" |
| The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers"The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers" | Activity | 2018-09-07 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Jeremy Weber" |
| Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust"Glimmer of Hope (then Hurt) for WLEMMAs from the Shale Oil Boom (and Bust) in North America" | Activity | 2019-11-15 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Kevin Milligan" |
| Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust | Activity | 2024-01-05 | Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Net Effects of Coal Mining at a Local Level in India | Publication | 2021-01-01 | Himani Pandey |
| Hydrogen Labour Market Sector Workforce Study | Activity | 2023-03-31 | Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Real Talk Ryan Jespersen Podcast, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2023-03-28 | Activity | 2023-03-28 | Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Business Technology and its Effect on Industry Concentration in the United States | Publication | 2022-04-01 | Nathan Becker |
| Personal Fixed-Date Deposit Forecasting | Publication | 2022-09-01 | Dimple Saggar |
| First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and PlacesAlberta is the first North American state or province with a $15 minimum wage, with an unexpectedly large increase (47%) over a short time span (3 years). The employment effects of this policy are estimated using a synthetic control approach on Labour Force Survey data. Three empirical results are documented. First, employers complied with the minimum wage increases, increment by increment, with workers moving up the wage distribution, bin by bin. Second, employment losses were found among young workers, but not among prime-age and older. Third, employment losses were found outside of Alberta's two main cities, but not within them. | Publication | 2020-11-01 | "Sebastian Fossati", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| First to $15: Alberta’s minimum wage policy on employment by wages, ages, and places | Publication | 2023-11-17 | "Fossati S", Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| How Local Economic Conditions Affect School Finances, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Texas Shale BoomWhether improved local economic conditions lead to better student outcomes is theoretically ambiguous and will depend on how schools use additional revenues and how students and teachers respond to rising private sector wages. The Texas boom in shale oil and gas drilling, with its large and localized effects on wages and the tax base, provides a unique opportunity to address this question that spans the areas of education, labor markets, and public finance. An empirical approach using variation in shale geology across school districts shows that the boom reduced test scores and student attendance, despite tripling the local tax base and creating a revenue windfall. Schools spent additional revenue on capital projects and debt service, but not on teachers. As the gap between teacher wages and private sector wages grew, so did teacher turnover and the percentage of inexperienced teachers, which helps explain the decline in student achievement. Changes in student composition did not account for the achievement decline but instead helped to moderate it. The findings illustrate the potential value of using revenue growth to retain teachers in times of rising private sector wages. | Publication | 2020-01-01 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Jeremy Weber" |
| Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide StandardsEnvironmental regulations aim to improve air and water quality, with ambitious goals on the horizon, but these benefits may come with costs, particularly in terms of jobs. This paper investigates how the largest environmental policy enacted in Canada, the Canada-Wide Standards (CWS) for Particulate Matter and Ozone, impacted local market outcomes, as well local air quality. We exploit features of the policy that generated plausibly exogenous variation in regulatory stringency, both over time and across geographical regions, and within geographical regions based on industry composition. As expected, we find that an increase in the stringency of regulations reduces both Ozone and Particulate Matter pollution concentrations, whereas a decrease in the stringency increases pollution concentrations, though to a lesser extent. We find that the increase in the stringency of regulations significantly reduces hourly and weekly earnings, but does not significantly affect employment or usual hours worked. | Publication | 2020-12-01 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Dana Andersen" |
| Local Labor Markets and Natural Resources: A Synthesis of the LiteratureA primary way that natural resources affect a locality is through the demand for labor, with greater extraction requiring more workers. Shifts in labor demand can be measured through changes in employment and earnings, the main labor market outcomes, or through changes in the population and income, more generally. These changes may spillover into the non-resource economy, leading to greater overall effects or possibly crowd out; be spread unequally across the population, thereby altering the distribution of income and the poverty rate; or influence educational attainment, as people choose between additional schooling and work. In this review, the literature linking natural resources to local labor markets is synthesized by organizing existing studies according to their resource measurement and the outcomes that they consider. This synthesis provides an accessible guide to a literature that has boomed in recent years. It also identifies promising avenues for future research and lays a foundation to further generalize the evidence through an eventual meta‐analysis. | Publication | 2018-04-01 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Jeremy Weber" |
| Routine Tasks were Demanded from Workers during an Energy BoomEnergy booms are most often associated with large increases in employment and earnings, as well as positive local labor market spillovers from energy to non-energy industries. In this study, the large, localized, and positive labor demand shock from an energy price boom in Western Canada was also found to increase the routine and manual task content of employment across the occupational distribution. Both occupation groups involving routine manual tasks (operators, fabricators and laborers; and production, craft, and repair), as well as one occupational group involving non-routine cognitive tasks (technicians), significantly increased their employment shares during this boom. However, these results show that only the routinization of employment had a significant impact on wages; not manualization. This conventional boom evidence illustrates how an energy boom can impact labor, beyond the traditional changes in employment and earnings, and serves as a counterexample to the documented occupational polarization often attributed to technological change. | Publication | 2020-07-09 | Joseph Thomas Marchand |
| Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and BustWhite, lower-educated, males in middle-age (WLEMMAs) have seen broad-based declines in socio-economic outcomes in recent decades, sparking a debate about the factors driving the decline. But not all WLEMMAs live in areas undergoing economic decline—WLEMMAs also comprise the majority of those working in the energy extraction sector, an industry that has undergone strong positive and negative economic shocks over this same era. Using the timing of the boom and bust across the United States, instruments are formed to predict the strength of the local labor demand shock. The shale oil boom and bust allows for the testing of symmetric effects, which bolsters the case for economic forces as an important factor driving the outcomes of WLEMMAs. We find that the boom led to sharply better labor market outcomes and improvements in health. We also find starkly different effects on mortality across ages, with younger males showing an increase and older ages a decrease in mortality during boom years. | Publication | 2020-10-01 | Joseph Thomas Marchand, "Kevin Milligan" |
