Local employment impact from competing energy sources: Shale gas versus wind generation in Texas

Energy Economics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 610-619

  Hartley, Peter R ^a,b   Medlock, Kenneth B ^a   Temzelides, Ted ^a   Zhang, Xinya ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment; Shale gas; Texas counties; Wind power

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); EMPLOYMENT; SHALE GAS; SHALE OIL; WAGES; WIND POWER;

ECONOMETRIC MODEL; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY SOURCE; LOCAL EMPLOYMENT; POLICY MAKERS; TEXAS COUNTIES; WIND GENERATION; WIND INDUSTRY;

SHALE;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; SHALE GAS; WAGE; WIND POWER;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945568433     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.02.023     Document Type: Article

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