 Measures, drivers and effects of green employment: evidence from US local labor markets, 2006–2014Francesco Vona, Giovanni Marin and Davide Consoli Journal of Economic Geography, 2019, vol. 19, issue 5, 1021-1048 Abstract: This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets in 2006–2014. The main methodological novelty consists of a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive analysis reveals that green employment is pro-cyclical, highly skilled, commands a 4% wage premium and is geographically concentrated. Green employment dynamics positively correlates with local green subsidies within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, local green knowledge, and resilience to the great recession. Finally, we find that one additional green job is associated with 4.2 (2.2 in the crisis period) new local jobs in non-tradable non-green activities. Keywords: Green employment; local labor markets; task-based approach; local multipliers; green American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; environmental policies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:jecgeo:v:19:y:2019:i:5:p:1021-1048. Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Geography is currently edited by Jorge De la Roca, Stephen Gibbons, Simona Iammarino, Amanda Ross and James Faulconbridge More articles in Journal of Economic Geography from Oxford University Press Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. |
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