Disentangling the greening of the labour market: The role of changing occupations and worker flows

Ronald Bachmann, Markus Janser, Florian Lehmer and Christina Vonnahme

No 1099, Ruhr Economic Papers from RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen

Abstract: Using a text-mining approach applied to task descriptions of occupations together with worker-level administrative data, we explore the growth in the greenness of employment in Germany between 2012 and 2022. We first show that the greening of occupations over time ("within-effect") is as important for the overall greening of employment as shifting occupational employment shares ("between-effect"). Second, we examine which occupations and task types contribute most to the within-effect, and which worker flows are mainly responsible for the between-effect. Third, we demonstrate that the employment prospects of foreign and of low-skilled workers are most at risk from the green transition.

Keywords: Green transition; job tasks; occupational mobility; worker flows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 O33 Q55 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.4419/96973277

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