A new measurement approach for identifying high-polluting jobs across European countries

Orsetta Causa, Maxime Nguyen and Emilia Soldani

No 1795, OECD Economics Department Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This paper develops a novel classification of high-polluting occupations for a large sample of European countries. Unlike previous efforts in the literature, the classification exploits country-level data on air polluting emission intensity by industry. The country-level data allows to capture important cross-country differences, due to differences in technology and in production focus. Applying the new classification to European Labour Force Survey data shows that, on average across the countries covered, about 4% of workers are employed in high-polluting jobs, ranging from 9% in Czechia and the Slovak Republic to around 2% in Austria. These shares do not exhibit any clear decreasing trend over the past decade. High-polluting jobs are unequally distributed, being over-represented among men, workers with lower and medium educational attainment and those living in rural areas.

Keywords: air polluting emissions; classification; climate change; green transition; high-polluting jobs; labour markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 Q51 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-04-24
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