Arbeitspapier

Eco-Innovation and Employment: A Task-Based Analysis

This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However, compared to non- eco-innovators there is an 18.2% increase in the number of green jobs (equivalent to 12 new green workers for the average firm). This means an average increase in the share of green workers of around 3.3%. Broadly speaking, the increase in the share of green jobs was driven by a reduction in non-green workers and a smaller but still significant increase in the number of green workers. We further show that subsidy-driven policies, rather than regulation-driven policies positively correlate with the number of green workers.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14028

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
Labor Demand
Thema
eco-innovation
green jobs
subsidies

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Elliott, Robert J. R.
Kuai, Wenjing
Maddison, David
Ozgen, Ceren
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2021

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Elliott, Robert J. R.
  • Kuai, Wenjing
  • Maddison, David
  • Ozgen, Ceren
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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