The Effect of Oil News Shocks on Job Creation and Destruction

Ryan Hanson and Ana María Herrera

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: Using data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) and the Census of Manufacturing (CMF), we construct quarterly measures of job creation and destruction by 3-digit NAICS industries spanning from 1980Q3-2016Q4. These long series allow us to address three questions regarding the effect of oil news shocks. What is the average effect of oil news shocks on sectoral labor reallocation? What characteristics explain the observed heterogeneity in the average responses across industries? Has the response of US manufacturing changed over time? We find evidence that oil news shocks exert only a moderate effect on total manufacturing net employment growth but lead to a significant increase in job reallocation. However, we find a high degree of heterogeneity in responses across industries. We then show that the cross-industry variation in the sensitivity of net employment growth and excess job reallocation to oil news shocks is related to differences in energy costs, the rate of energy to capital expenditures, and the share of mature firms in the industry. Finally, we illustrate how the dynamic response of sectoral job creation and destruction to oil news shocks has declined since the mid-2000s.

Keywords: job flows; oil news shocks; high frequency identification; OPEC announcements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-01
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