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

Author: Mr. John C Bluedorn, Mr. Niels-Jakob H Hansen, Diaa Noureldin, Mr. Ippei Shibata, and Ms. Marina Mendes Tavares

Volume/Issue: Volume 2022 Issue 146

Publication date: July 2022

ISBN: 9798400215568

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Labor , Economics- Macroeconomics , Economics / General , Environmental Economics , Public Policy- Environmental Policy , 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

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Summary

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.