TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental regulation and green skills
T2 - An empirical exploration
AU - Vona, Francesco
AU - Marin, Giovanni
AU - Consoli, Davide
AU - Popp, David
N1 - Funding Information:
gash Kuralbayeva, Maurizio Iacopetta, Leonard Lopoo, Stefania Lovo, Joelle Noailly, Edson Sever-nini, Kelly Stevens, and Elena Verdolini for useful comments and discussions. This paper benefits from comments at the following seminars and conferences: the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, SKEMA Business School (Nice), Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar, the third annual meeting of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (Padova), University of Ferrara, 21st annual conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (Helsinki), London School of Economics conference on innovation and the environment (London), American Economic Association (San Francisco), 28th EALE meeting (Ghent), and 3rd IZA Workshop on Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies (Berlin) for their comments. Francesco Vona and Giovanni Marin gratefully acknowledge the funding received from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development, and demonstration under grant agreement no. 320278 (RASTANEWS). Francesco Vona wishes to thank Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University for the kind hospitality during the initial writing of this paper. Davide Consoli acknowledges the financial support of the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (RYC-2011-07888).
Funding Information:
Francesco Vona and Giovanni Marin gratefully acknowledge the funding received from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development, and demonstration under grant agreement no. 320278 (RASTANEWS). Francesco Vona wishes to thank Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University for the kind hospitality during the initial writing of this paper. Davide Consoli acknowledges the financial support of the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (RYC-2011-07888).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - This paper provides new evidence on the workplace skills most relevant in the transition toward environmentally sustainable economies. Using a novel data driven methodology, we identify two main sets of green skills, namely, engineering skills for the design and production of technology, and managerial skills for implementing and monitoring environmental organizational practices. Exploiting exogenous geographical variation in regulatory stringency, we also evaluate the effect of environmental regulation on the demand of green skills for a panel of U Smetropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas over the period 2006–14.Themain finding is that while these changes in environmental regulation have no impact on overall employment, they create significant, if modest, gaps in the demand for some green skills, especially those related to technical and engineering work tasks.
AB - This paper provides new evidence on the workplace skills most relevant in the transition toward environmentally sustainable economies. Using a novel data driven methodology, we identify two main sets of green skills, namely, engineering skills for the design and production of technology, and managerial skills for implementing and monitoring environmental organizational practices. Exploiting exogenous geographical variation in regulatory stringency, we also evaluate the effect of environmental regulation on the demand of green skills for a panel of U Smetropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas over the period 2006–14.Themain finding is that while these changes in environmental regulation have no impact on overall employment, they create significant, if modest, gaps in the demand for some green skills, especially those related to technical and engineering work tasks.
KW - Environmental regulation
KW - Green skills
KW - Task model
KW - Workforce composition
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U2 - 10.1086/698859
DO - 10.1086/698859
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054855224
SN - 2333-5955
VL - 5
SP - 713
EP - 753
JO - Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
JF - Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
IS - 4
ER -