Green Jobs Study Group
The Centre for Business Prosperity are pleased to announce the launch of the Green Jobs Study Group organised by the Digital Economy and Innovation theme lead by Dr Anastasios Kitsos.
This study group will focus on green jobs, their task and skill characteristics and their implications for local and national labour markets at the aggregate and individual level. It is increasingly becoming indisputable that a large share of the global economy will need to transition to greener practices. Whether products or modus operandi, most of the traditional industries will have to contribute towards net-zero targets.
Greening the economy is dependent on greening the physical and human capital. This predominantly involves greening existing production processes, carried out by employees that need reskilling and upskilling to meet the demands of net zero and creating a host of emerging green occupations as well as a transition towards greening existing occupations. Recent research efforts attempt to estimate the greening of occupations as well as the characteristics of the emerging new jobs.
However, little is known as to the impact of such greening on inequality involving firm growth, productivity, innovation, and its distribution across industries and space. The aim is for the group to identify emerging research questions on the issue and build knowledge and research collaborations to tackle them.
Session 1 Information
Date: 10/01/2022
Time: 11.00-13.00 UK time
Where: Teams
Format: Presentations of green jobs research, combined with discussion on gaps, research questions and next steps.
Presentations:
- Speaker: Dr Anastasios Kitsos (Valero, A. et al (2021) – Are ‘green’ jobs good jobs? How lessons from the experience to-date can inform labour market transitions of the future)
- Speaker: Ms Xiaocan Yuan (Bowen, A. et al (2018) – Characterising green employment: The impacts of ‘greening’ on workforce composition)
- Speaker: Dr Meng Song (Vona, F. et al (2019) – Measures, drivers and effects of green employment: evidence from US local labor markets, 2006–2014)
- Speaker: Simone Maria Grabner (Consoli, D. et al (2016) – Do green jobs differ from non-green jobs in terms of skills and human capital?)
For information please contact Anastasios Kitsos: [email protected]