IMF Working Papers Volume 2022 Issue 146: Transitioning to a Greener Labor Market: Cross-Country Evidence from Microdata (2022)

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Transitioning to a Greener Labor Market: Cross-Country Evidence from Microdata

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Mr. John C Bluedorn

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Series:: IMF Working Papers

Volume/Issue:: Volume 2022: Issue 146

Publication Date:: 22 Jul 2022

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400215568.001

ISBN:: 9798400215568

ISSN:: 1018-5941

Pages:: 39

Keywords:: Green jobs; Green Skills; Polluting jobs; Emissions; Environmental Regulation.; labor market implication; IMF working paper 2022/146; pollution intensity; green job; implications of the green; polluting job; Environmental policy; Employment; Labor markets; Climate change; Africa; Global; intensity score; emissions intensity; worker reallocation support; job-to-green job transition; pollution intensities of employment

Legal-disclaimer:: IMF Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to encourage debate. The views expressed in IMF Working Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management.

Series:: IMF Working Papers

Volume/Issue:: Volume 2022: Issue 146

Language:: English

Publication Date:: 22 Jul 2022

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400215568.001

ISBN:: 9798400215568

ISSN:: 1018-5941

Pages:: 39

Keywords:: Green jobs; Green Skills; Polluting jobs; Emissions; Environmental Regulation.; labor market implication; IMF working paper 2022/146; pollution intensity; green job; implications of the green; polluting job; Environmental policy; Employment; Labor markets; Climate change; Africa; Global; intensity score; emissions intensity; worker reallocation support; job-to-green job transition; pollution intensities of employment

Legal-disclaimer:: IMF Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to encourage debate. The views expressed in IMF Working Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management.

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This paper builds a new set of harmonized indicators of the environmental properties of jobs using micro-level labor force survey data from 34 economies between 2005 and 2019 and analyzes the labor market implications of the green economic transition and environmental policies. Based on the new set of indicators, the paper's main findings are that greener and more polluting jobs are concentrated among smaller subsets of workers, individual workers rarely move from more pollution-intensive to greener jobs, and workers in green-intensive jobs earn on average 7 percent more than workers in pollution-intensive jobs.

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