Arbeitspapier
Job Displacement Costs of Phasing Out Coal
The reduction of carbon emissions will require a rapid phasing out of coal and the displacement of millions of coal miners. How much could this energy transition cost mining workers? We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners. We find evidence of substantial losses: wages fell by 40% and earnings fell by 80% to 90% one year after job loss. These losses are persistent and remain significantly depressed fifteen years later, amounting to present discounted value earnings losses of between four and six times the miners pre-displacement earnings.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15581
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- Subject
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labor displacement
energy transition
coal mines
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Rud, Juan Pablo
Simmons, Michael
Toews, Gerhard
Aragon, Fernando
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2022
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Rud, Juan Pablo
- Simmons, Michael
- Toews, Gerhard
- Aragon, Fernando
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2022
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