The Impact of Local Labor Market Conditions on Migration: Evidence from the Bakken Oil Boom

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mallory C. Vachon
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Oil Boom ◽  
The Impact

The Impact of Changes in Local Labor Market Conditions on Estimates of Occupational Segregation

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Susanne Schmitz ◽  
Paul E. Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
White Women ◽  
Occupational Segregation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Recent work by labor economists has suggested that differential labor market treatment of minorities (e.g., occupational segregation) may vary across local labor markets. This study assesses whether changing economic conditions in a local labor market affects the degree of occupational segregation by race and gender in the United States. Our empirical analysis finds evidence that the relative occupational structures of white women and black males are systematically related to changes in certain local labor market conditions.

scholarly journals Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm

ILR Review ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Verhoogen ◽  
Stephen V. Burks ◽  
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Wage Rates

The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the attractiveness of the wage paid by the firm relative to employees' options in the outside labor market. The authors find robust associations between the wage-fairness perceptions of employees in the firm and two indicators of local conditions—the rate of unemployment and the wages of similar workers in the outside market. They argue that these correlations reflect a causal relationship: an increase in unemployment or a decrease in outside wages led workers to perceive their wage to be more fair.

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