Green Economy and Sustainable Development: The Economic Impact of Innovation on Employment

被引:70
作者
Aldieri, Luigi [1 ]
Vinci, Concetto Paolo [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Salerno, Dept Econ & Stat Sci, Via Giovanni Paolo 2 132, I-84084 Fisciano, Italy
关键词
green economy; diffusion process; labor demand; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; FIRM-LEVEL; JOB CREATION; HIGH-TECH; TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; SPILLOVERS; SKILLS; PRODUCTIVITY; EFFICIENCY;
D O I
10.3390/su10103541
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of the knowledge diffusion process in employment effects of sustainable development investments for large international firms. We present an empirical analysis based upon a dataset composed of worldwide Research and Development (R&D) -intensive firms over the period 2002-2010. In order to identify the technological relatedness measure between the firms, we use the friendly environmental patents' distribution. The drivers of labor innovation effects are identified as a complex combination of job displacement and compensation forces of innovation. Two research questions are investigated: first, we wonder whether green economy investments stimulate firm-level jobs within three different environmental contexts: water, waste and energy; second, we would like to learn the extent to which the knowledge diffusion is an important channel supporting labor in the environmental context, by analysing the impact of intra-industry externalities. From the empirical results, we can observe that environmental spillovers have a negative impact, by confirming the prevalence of the displacement effect. This finding is extremely important for policy implications. Indeed, not only economic incentives to allow the transition to cleaner technologies are required, but also stronger actions to favor job creation relative to environmental activities are needed for a full sustainable achievement of firms.
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