Local Labor Market Impacts of Energy Boom-Bust-Boom in Western Canada

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Local economic impacts of an unconventional energy boom: the coal seam gas industry in Australia† (2015, methodology): “By contrast, during a resource boom, adverse employment effects are likely in the local tradable sector, namely manufacturing – potentially higher wages payed by mining can produce a migration of labour from the local manufacturing to the extraction sector (Marchand 2012).”
The Economics of Shale Gas Development (2015, background): “Marchand (2012), examining three decades of data on employment and earnings in Western Canada under two booms and one bust, does not find a significant change in employment in the bust years.”
Storms and Jobs: The Effect of Hurricanes on Individuals’ Employment and Earnings over the Long Term (2020, unknown): “Although we combine agriculture and natural resources in a single industry category for the main analysis (due to the small share of employment in each), we use separate categories for the propensity-score model because trends in energy prices may affect local areas differently depending on their em”
Coal Mining, Economic Development, and the Natural Resource Curse (2015, background): “Marchand (2012) also finds the positive employment and earnings effects spill over into non-energy industries such as construction, retail trade, and service sectors during the boom, though some of the spillover gains are lost during the bust.”