Climate policies and skill-biased employment dynamics: Evidence from EU countries

被引：67

作者：

Marin, Giovanni ^{[1
,2
]}

Vona, Francesco ^{[3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

[2] SEEDS, Ferrara, Italy

[3] OFCE Sci Po, Paris, France

[4] Univ Cote Azur, SKEMA Business Sch, Nice, France

来源：

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT | 2019年 / 98卷

基金：

欧盟地平线“2020”;

关键词：

Climate policies; Workforce skills; Employment impacts; Cluster analysis; Energy prices; Shift-share instruments; ENVIRONMENTAL-REGULATION; ENERGY PRICES; IMPORT COMPETITION; IMPACTS; JOBS; GROWTH; POLARIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REGULATIONS; INNOVATION;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jeem.2019.102253

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

The political acceptability of climate policies is undermined by job-killing arguments, especially for the least-skilled workers. However, evidence of the distributional impacts for different workers remains scant. We examine the associations between climate policies, proxied by energy prices, and workforce skills for 14 European countries and 15 industrial sectors over the period 1995-2011. Using a shift-share instrumental variable estimator and controlling for the influence of automation and globalization, we find that climate policies have been skill biased against manual workers and have favoured technicians. The long-term change in energy prices accounted for between 9.2% and 17.5% (resp. 4.2% and 8.0%) of the increase (resp. decrease) in the share of technicians (resp. manual workers). (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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