Is Labor Green?

Alvarez, Camila; McGee, Julius Alexander; York, Richard

doi:10.3167/nc.2019.140102

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“…Some research exists that suggests that better working conditions may attenuate environmental harm. Nations with stronger labor unions, and subsequently better workers' health and safety regulations, tend to have reduced greenhouse gas emissions comparatively [78]. In addition, cross nationally both DCs and LDCs with longer working hours tend to consume more energy and emit more CO 2 [79].…”

Section: Labor Force Participationmentioning

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Does Gender Climate Influence Climate Change? The Multidimensionality of Gender Equality and Its Countervailing Effects on the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being

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The carbon intensity of well-being (CIWB) (a ratio measuring the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of life expectancy at birth) is an increasingly popular way to measure the ecological efficiency of nations. Although research demonstrates that economic development typically reduces this efficiency, little research has explored the extent to which social equality improves it. This study uses panel data for 70 nations between 1995 and 2013 to assess how various aspects of gender equality affect the ecological efficiency of nations. We estimate a series of Prais-Winsten regression models with panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE) to assess how increases in the percentage of women in parliament, expected years of education for women, and the percentage of women in the labor force independently affect CIWB. Our findings indicate that across all nations, increases in the percentage of women in parliament and expected years of schooling reduce CIWB; however, increases in the percentage of women in the labor force increase CIWB. Our results further show that the relationship between different dimensions of gender equality and CIWB differs between more developed and less developed nations. Finally, we find that increases in the number of women in parliament and women’s education attenuate the relationship between women’s labor force participation and CIWB. We discuss the variation in our results by reviewing relevant eco-gender literatures and feminist economics.

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Section: Labor Force Participationmentioning

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Does Gender Climate Influence Climate Change? The Multidimensionality of Gender Equality and Its Countervailing Effects on the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being

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“…Hence, it is crucial to motivate workers to contribute their knowledge and skills to the conversion process. This is most likely to occur in companies of high workplace democracy and cooperatives (Alvarez et al 2019) because workers suspect less that the transformation process is used by company management as a vehicle of rationalization for company profit at the expense of worker rights. In addition, regional transformation councils that take on board citizens beyond a single plant or company can overcome existing actor networks and establish opportunities for new cooperations, a prerequisite for new products (Pichler et al 2021).…”

Section: Conversion Of Plants and Businessesmentioning

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Greening work: labor market policies for the environment

Bohnenberger

2022

Empirica

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Jobs are essential for social inclusion, raising taxes, and guaranteeing the financial resilience of (welfare) states. At the same time, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, and the European Green Deal require the greening of our economies and labor markets. This paper assesses how labor market policies can green employment. The paper analyses the potential effects of eight different policy strategies on four dimensions of the Taxonomy of Sustainable Employment: conversion of plants and businesses, environmental labor law, climate decommodification, socio-ecological job guarantee, vocational guidance and retraining, distribution of employment time, alternative income sources, and equalization of income. All eight strategies have the potential of greening employment but feature different intensities in the four dimensions. In the light of environmental crises, the results suggest widening the toolbox of labor market policies for a green and just transition.

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“…The capitalist system promotes profit growth through technical progress and environmental degradation from a theoretical standpoint. All this results in job losses, necessitating more production, the development of new jobs, and, eventually, the provision of additional finances to clean up the environment (Gould et al 2008;Alvarez et al 2019). The term "production treadmill" is used when labor plays a critical role in speeding the production and accumulation (Gentry, 2009).…”

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The relationship between CO2 emissions, economic growth, available energy, and employment in SEE countries

Mitić

Fedajev

Rădulescu

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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As a result of a greater worldwide aspiration for wealth and economic progress, increased use of natural resources for diverse industries resulted in increased pollution emissions, mainly carbon dioxide. Energy security, economic stability, job security, biodiversity loss, climate change, and global warming all require reconciliation and resolution now, more than ever before. This paper explores the causal relationship between CO 2 emissions, economic growth, available energy, and employment for a panel of eight South-Eastern European countries from 1995 to 2019. We investigate the relationship using panel unit root tests, panel cointegration methods, and panel causality tests. The results show a short-run bidirectional panel causality between CO 2 emissions and employment and between available energy and employment. The results further indicate a unidirectional causality from available energy and employment to GDP. The long-run causal relationship results show that the estimated coefficients of the lagged ECT in the CO 2 emissions, GDP, and employment equations are statistically significant, implying that these variables could play a significant role in the system's adjustment process as it departs from long-run equilibrium. We also conducted a variance decomposition analysis, which allowed us to compare the extent of the individual factors' contributions to each other over the next 5 years.

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Is Labor Green?

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

Does Gender Climate Influence Climate Change? The Multidimensionality of Gender Equality and Its Countervailing Effects on the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being

Does Gender Climate Influence Climate Change? The Multidimensionality of Gender Equality and Its Countervailing Effects on the Carbon Intensity of Well-Being

Greening work: labor market policies for the environment

The relationship between CO2 emissions, economic growth, available energy, and employment in SEE countries

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