Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The Role of Changing Occupations and Worker Flows

Ronald Bachmann, Markus Janser, Florian Lehmer and Christina Vonnahme
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Florian Lehmer: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Christina Vonnahme: RWI

No 202412, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

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 demonstrate that the greening of the labour market occurs both through an increase of green tasks and a decrease of brown tasks. Furthermore, the greening of occupations over time (“within-effect”) is at least as important for the overall greening of employment as shifting occupational employment shares (“between-effect”). Second, we show which occupations and which task types (brown or green) contribute most to the within-effect, and which worker flows are mainly responsible for the between-effect. Third, we investigate individual-level consequences of the greening of employment. We find that the employment prospects of foreign and of low-skilled workers are most at risk from the green transition, which may therefore increase existing labour-market inequalities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; IAB-Open-Access-Publikation; ausländische Arbeitnehmer; Dekarbonisierung; Auswirkungen; berufliche Mobilität; Berufsgruppe; Berufsstrukturwandel; Beschäftigungseffekte; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; IAB-Beschäftigtenhistorik; IAB-Beschäftigtenhistorik; Klimaschutz; labour turnover; qualifikationsspezifische Faktoren; Greenness-of-Jobs-Index; Tätigkeitswandel; Umweltberufe; 2012-2022 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 O33 Q55 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2024-09-27
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DOI: 10.48720/IAB.DP.2412

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