Natural Disasters and the Green Occupational Aspirations of Adolescents

Andreas F. Buehler, Patrick Lehnert and Harald Pfeifer
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Andreas Fridolin Bühler

No 254, Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Abstract: We examine whether exposure to climate change-related natural disasters is associated with adolescents' aspirations to work in green occupation. Understanding adolescents' aspirations for such occupations is crucial for ensuring a workforce with green skills to contribute to the mitigation of climate change. Combining individual-level data on occupational aspirations, job task data for measuring the greenness of occupations, and administrative data on disaster events, we find that adolescents who were exposed to a natural disaster aspire to occupations with a higher percentage of green job tasks. The result of this exposure is stronger for individuals who are more environmentally aware or more likely to believe that environmental issues will improve.

Keywords: Green Occupations; Natural Disasters; Aspirations; Occupational Choices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2026-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-env, nep-lma and nep-tid
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repec.business.uzh.ch/RePEc/iso/leadinghouse/0254_lhwpaper.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iso:educat:0254

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sara Brunner ().