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

Bluedorn, John; Hansen, Niels-Jakob; Shibata, Ippei; Tavares, Marina Franco Maggi; Noureldin, Diaa

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“…Workers in brown jobs often face difficulties when transitioning to occupations in other industries, and promises of financial compensation may not be credible (Bluedorn et al, 2023;Gazmararian and Tingley, 2023). A large-scale phasing out of brown jobs may also threaten communities that rely heavily on polluting industries and occupations.…”

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“…Such policy positions have drastic consequences for individuals with brown occupations and for communities that either produce fossil fuels or have industries that heavily rely on fossil fuels, such as the chemical industry. While the energy transition also creates new greener jobs, individuals rarely move from more carbon-intensive to greener jobs (Bluedorn et al, 2023). Promises of financial compensation or green jobs that might replace brown jobs may not be credible (Gazmararian and Tingley, 2023).…”

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The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines

Heddesheimer,

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Voeten

2024

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The green transition creates economic winners and losers. To what extent has the energy transition resulted in political polarization along occupational lines? We examine this question in the context of Germany, a country that has adopted some of the most far-reaching energy transition policies and that also has substantial employment in heavy emissions occupations. The far-right AfD party started campaigning as the only party opposing energy transition policies in 2016. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that, after the 2013 election, AfD support increased in counties with larger shares of employment in polluting occupations. We then use individual-level panel data to show that since 2016, individuals in polluting occupations have become significantly more likely to identify with the far-right. We further demonstrate that these findings are not due to simultaneous political changes, most notably (i) differential activation of xenophobia after 2015 and (ii) losses in manufacturing employment. This suggests that far-right parties have benefited from concerns over present and future energy transition policies.

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The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines

Heddesheimer,

Hilbig,

Voeten

2024

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“…Although O*NET focuses on the US, its data has often used to study other labor markets and cross-country comparisons. For example,Bluedorn et al (2023) uses O*NET study "green jobs", while andSoh et al (2022) study "digital jobs" in the US and UK. Cross-country analysis relies on the assumption that key tasks and skills comprising an occupation do not change across countries.…”

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Labor Market Exposure to AI: Cross-country Differences and Distributional Implications

Pizzinelli

2023

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The study examines the effect of foreign aid on the relationship between country governance and corporate investment (CI) choices. Using 10 years of financial data (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016) on non-financial sector firms from seven economies that are major recipients of foreign aid, results show that both country governance and foreign aid have positive effects on CI decisions. However, results show negative effects of foreign aid on country's governance conditions, which further results in negative CI, indicating that the dependency of a country on foreign aid undermines its institutional performance and efficiency, which further deteriorates CI. The study suggests that policymakers from these economies should ensure the effectiveness of foreign aid and introduce better governance practices to expediate industrial growth. (1 figure, 7 tables, references) 1078/39 Firms' response to macroeconomic estimation errors Binz, O. et al.

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

Abstract: as well as internal seminar participants and reviewers at the IMF for their valuable comments. We are grateful to Francesco Vona for providing access to his taxonomy files. Any errors are those of authors.

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The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines

The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines

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