Measuring the Labor Market Impacts of Hurricane Katrina Migration: Evidence from Houston, Texas

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Rising sea levels and sinking property values: Hurricane Sandy and New York’s housing market (2018, methodology): “McIntosh (2008) examned the effects of Katrina-related migration of evacuees on the Houston etropolitan area labor market.”
Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis (2020, unknown): “Monras (2015) suggests that this is a consequence of reduced in-migration into shocked locations which explains the fast response, but CPS data is limited to explore this further in this paper.”
Cash holdings and labor heterogeneity:the role of skilled labor (2017, unknown): “Given that those evacuees consisted of both highly and low-skilled workers (Gabe et al. 2005; McIntosh 2008; De Silva et al. 2010), the Katrina-induced increase in the labor supply should increase the thickness (i.e., the number of effective participants) of Houston’s local labor market (Moretti…”
Natural disasters and labor markets (2017, background): “…(2010b) 1Some studies use hurricanes as natural experiments to investigate the impact of migration on receiving labor markets, for example see McIntosh (2008); Silva, McComb, Moh, Schiller, and Vargas (2010). uses data from the US Census of Population and finds a significant relationship…”