TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Strobl, Eric
AU  - Walsh, Frank
        TI  - The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry
        PY  - 2008/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3544
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3544
        AB  - We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that destruction due to hurricanes causes on average an increase in country level employment in construction of a little over 25 per cent.
        KW  - hurricanes
KW  - labour demand
KW  - construction industry
        ER  -