Wind Power and Job Creation

Luigi Aldieri, Jonas Grafström, Kristoffer Sundström and Concetto Paolo Vinci
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Kristoffer Sundström: The Ratio Institute, SE-11359 Stockholm, Sweden

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-23

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide a global overview of job effects per MW of wind power installations, which will enable improved decision-making and modeling of future wind-power projects. We found indications that job creation connected to wind-power installations is rather limited. In total, 17 peer-reviewed articles and 10 reports/non-peer-reviewed papers between 2001 and 2019 were assessed. Our three major policy conclusions are as follows: (a) job creation seems to be limited; (b) each new project should consider a unique assessment, since all projects have been undertaken within different institutional frameworks, labor markets, and during separate years, meaning that the technology is not comparable; and (c) the number of jobs depends on the labor intensity of the country.

Keywords: wind power; jobs; labor; renewable; policy; energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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