Job Displacement Costs of Phasing out Coal

Juan-Pablo Rud, Michael Simmons, Gerhard Toews and Fernando Aragon
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Juan-Pablo Rud: University of London
Fernando Aragon: Simon Fraser University

No 184, Working Papers from Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE)

Abstract: The reduction of carbon emissions will require a rapid phasing out of coal and the displacement of millions of coal miners. How much could this energy transition cost mining workers? We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners. We find evidence of substantial losses: wages fell by 40% and earnings fell by 80% to 90% one year after job loss. These losses are persistent and remain significantly depressed fifteen years later, amounting to present discounted value earnings losses of between four and six times the miners pre-displacement earnings

JEL-codes: J30 J63 J64 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2022-10
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