Environmental Regulation and Green Skills: An Empirical Exploration
By Francesco Vona, Giovanni Marin, Davide Consoli, David Popp. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2018
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This paper provides new evidence on the workplace skills most relevant in the transition toward environmentally sustainable economies. Using a novel data-driven methodology, we identify two main sets of green skills, namely, engineering skills for the design and production of technology, and managerial skills for implementing and monitoring environmental organizational practices. Exploiting exogenous geographical variation in regulatory stringency, we also evaluate the effect of environmental regulation on the demand of green skills for a panel of US metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas over the period 2006–14. The main finding is that while these changes in environmental regulation have no impact on overall employment, they create significant, if modest, gaps in the demand for some green skills, especially those related to technical and engineering work tasks.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering
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- Characterising green employment: The impacts of ‘greening’ on workforce composition (2018, unknown): “5 Vona et al. (2017).”
- Job losses and political acceptability of climate policies: why the ‘job-killing’ argument is so persistent and how to overturn it (2018, background): “However, there is a fundamental asymmetry between brown losers, who tend to be low-skilled individuals with few outside opportunities, and green winners, who, as shown by Vona et al. (2018a), seem to be mostly high-skilled workers with plenty of outside opportunities.”