The Future of Energy and What It Means for Labor Markets

A long-term transition is underway in the consumption and production of energy: from non-renewable “brown” energy sources based on fossil fuels, such as coal, crude oil, and natural gas, to renewable “green” sources, like bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind energy.


This project will explore what direct and indirect impacts this transition may have on the labor market outcomes of employment and earnings in the local Canadian and US economies where this energy production is located, as well as the potential aggregate nation-wide impacts.


In addition to focusing the terminology and accounting of brown and green jobs, this project will study employment spillovers between brown and green energy jobs, as well as regional concentrations, the quality of jobs, and job transitions between these sources.


Related research questions include: What are the required skills and tasks of workers? How do the benefits of booms relate to the potential losses during subsequent busts? To what extent do the location of brown energy sources affect labor mobility and how might that change in areas where green energy sources are located?

Alberta Centre for Labour Market Research Grant

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Award

(Joint) Society of Labor Economists and European Association of Labor Economists, Berlin, Germany, 2020-06-26

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Allied Social Science Associations, Annual Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 2022-01-07

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Denver, CO, USA, 2019-11-09

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Fall Research Conference, Austin, TX, USA, 2022-03-29

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, USA, 2018-11-08

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Business Technology and its Effect on Industry Concentration in the United States

Nathan Becker

Master Thesis

Canadian Economics Association, Annual Conference, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2022-06-03

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Canadian Economics Association, Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2021-06-05

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Canadian Labour Economics Forum, Online Seminar, 2022-10-22

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Don’t It Make My Brown Jobs Green? What Renewable Energy Means for Jobs and Job Quality

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Article in professional or trade journals

Eastern Economics Association, Annual Conference, 2023-02-25

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Economics Society of Northern Alberta, Annual Conference, 2022-12-08

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

First to $15: Alberta’s minimum wage policy on employment by wages, ages, and places

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

First to $15: Alberta’s minimum wage policy on employment by wages, ages, and places

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

First to $15: Alberta’s minimum wage policy on employment by wages, ages, and places

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

How Local Economic Conditions Affect School Finances, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Texas Shale Boom

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Hydrogen Labour Market Sector Workforce Study

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Labor and Employment Relations Association, Annual Conference, Detroit, MI, USA, 2021-06-05

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Labor and Employment Relations Association, Portland, OR, USA, 2020-06-15

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Local Labor Markets and Natural Resources: A Synthesis of the Literature

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

London School of Economics and Political Science, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK, 2019-10-02

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

National Bureau of Economic Research, Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2020-07-17

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Net Effects of Coal Mining at a Local Level in India

Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation

Personal Fixed-Date Deposit Forecasting

Master Thesis

Real Talk Ryan Jespersen Podcast, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2023-03-28

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Routine Tasks were Demanded from Workers during an Energy Boom

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Royal Economic Society, Annual Conference, Belfast, N. Ireland, UK, 2021-04-13

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Society of Labor Economists, Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2022-05-07

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Society of Labor Economists, Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2022-05-15

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust

Joseph Thomas Marchand

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution