The effects of oil price shocks on job reallocation

We investigate the effect of oil price innovations on U.S. manufacturing job flows using a simultaneous equation model that nests symmetric and asymmetric responses. We find no evidence of asymmetry in the response of job flows to positive and negative oil price innovations. We then inquire whether...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Karaki, Mohamad B. (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Herrera, Ana Maria (author)
التنسيق: article
منشور في: 2015
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/6469
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2015.08.006
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165188915001542
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الملخص:We investigate the effect of oil price innovations on U.S. manufacturing job flows using a simultaneous equation model that nests symmetric and asymmetric responses. We find no evidence of asymmetry in the response of job flows to positive and negative oil price innovations. We then inquire whether firms, when facing positive shocks, shed jobs faster than they create jobs. We show that positive innovations lead to a decline in net employment and an increase in job reallocation, possibly due to search and matching issues. Yet, the latter effect becomes statistically insignificant when we control for data mining. We demonstrate that the cumulative one-year effect of oil price shocks on job creation and destruction was smaller during the Great Moderation, but it was larger for gross job reallocation. These variations were caused by a change in the transmission channel and not by smaller oil price shocks.