Employment Impacts of Upstream Oil and Gas Investment in the United States
Mark Agerton,
Peter Hartley,
Kenneth Medlock and
Ted Loch Temzelides
No 2015/028, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund
Abstract:
Technological progress in the exploration and production of oil and gas during the 2000s has led to a boom in upstream investment and has increased the domestic supply of fossil fuels. It is unknown, however, how many jobs this boom has created. We use time-series methods at the national level and dynamic panel methods at the state-level to understand how the increase in exploration and production activity has impacted employment. We find robust statistical support for the hypothesis that changes in drilling for oil and gas as captured by rig-counts do in fact, have an economically meaningful and positive impact on employment. The strongest impact is contemporaneous, though months later in the year also experience statistically and economically meaningful growth. Once dynamic effects are accounted for, we estimate that an additional rig-count results in the creation of 37 jobs immediately and 224 jobs in the long run, though our robustness checks suggest that these multipliers could be bigger.
Keywords: WP; job creation; Employment; employment impact; employment growth; state employment; boom state; employment response; employment multiplier; employment consequence; employment activity; Oil prices; Oil; Agroindustries; North America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36
Date: 2015-02-11
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Journal Article: Employment impacts of upstream oil and gas investment in the United States (2017) 
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