European Green Deal and Recovery Plan: Green Jobs, Skills and Wellbeing Economics in Spain

Abstract

This paper on Political Economic and Labour Economic Policies in the European Green Deal framework analyses the Recovery Plan and Resilience Facility. It pays attention to the effects on the design of new green jobs and the necessary skills to develop this type of new positions generated, with higher labour wellbeing. The paper is focused on the analysis of the green jobs’ opportunity for Europe, at a country level, with a specific analysis made for the Spanish case. A systematisation of the concepts and calculations on the issue is made and analysed (attending the international institutions and forums proposals) to harmonise the recovery plans, apply them beyond the energy sector to other related green activities and align the public and private sector, and other critical stakeholders, in achieving this goal. The following research questions were formulated: (1) what is the estimated number of new green jobs that would be created as a consequence of the implementation of the Recovery Plan in Spain; (2) which new soft skills or re-skilling would be necessary to develop such new green jobs; (3) how much are the new jobs aligned with Wellbeing Economics? The research was conducted by applying a few research methods, i.e., secondary sources, the desk research method and the exploration method, critical and comparative analysis, inductive and deductive reasoning and some mathematical calculations. The research contribution can provide a valuable source of information to coordinate sectoral plans by the policymakers, particularly those responsible for the economy, business, green activities and education.

European Recovery and Green Jobs beyond the Energy Sector: Wellbeing Opportunity in Spanish Tourism Sector

“…The next step of the digital economy is WBE: the new green jobs (according to the Ricardo effect or readjustment), they have to attend to industry of emotions and experiences; so it is necessary to count with talent-collaborators, who keep the 3P relation in a motivational way (not as a coercive issue, better as a win-win game with higher satisfaction for everyone [9,10,17,70]).…”

“…To economize, there is a remission to previous papers, with extended explanations on EGD, Recovery plan and green jobs [9], in the emergence of the Wellbeing Economics (WBE) [10] with digital economy and the change in business culture [17]: the new economic paradigm is based in the optimization of a triple-P-relation among profits-planet-people, supported by several international commitments [18,19]. The conections and clusters are collected in the following figure.…”

“…The EGD has insisted on the importance of moving towards European sustainability decisively, eliminating the negative impact on health of pollution, promoting responsible production and consumption, and embracing the SDGs set by UN [8]. The European strategy has placed special focus on the fast growing employment opportunities in the green economy, the so-called green jobs, which have become the most visible flagship of EGD [9,10]. Also, the EU is working in the improvement of EGD at large, to extend it to every economic sector, in terms of wellbeing economics: the combination of decent work with life satisfaction in better environment (3P relation: profits-planet-people).…”

“…In this way, this is a great opportunity for the tourism sector, which is growing each year (of course, with the exception of the pandemic crisis and the great lockdown [11], but the forecasts sign a great and fast recovery). In a strategic view, it is a good opportunity to design the green recovery for this sector, to improve the green jobs (in terms of wellbeing) [9,10].…”

Historia de la reciente deflación del capital y los salarios en España: Revisión de los desarrollos de la teoría de ciclos económicos

“…Dado que se parte de una situación de pleno empleo de los recursos productivos 8 , la única forma que tienen los empresarios de atraer a los trabajadores de las etapas más cercanas al consumo hacia aquellas más alejadas del mismo es ofrecer unos salarios más altos, lo cual eleva los costes de los nuevos procesos productivos puestos en marcha. b) Subida en el precio de los bienes de consumo por una disminución en su oferta, por la detracción de la mano de obra de los procesos productivos más próximos al consumo, al haber sido desplazados los trabajadores a etapas más alejadas de dicho proceso (García-Vaquero et al, 2021). Además, estos últimos se han alargado y han surgido nuevos procesos de producción (aún más alejados del consumo final) más intensivos en tiempo y capital, financiados por la expansión del crédito bancario.…”