Research Seminar
Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The Role of Changing Occupations and Worker Flows
Exploring Germany's green employment growth (2012–2022): Insights from text-mining task data, worker flows, and the green transition's impact on vulnerable workers.
Using a text-mining approach applied to task descriptions of occupations together with worker-level administrative data, we explore the growth in the greenness of employment in Germany between 2012 and 2022.
We first show that the greening of occupations over time (“within-effect”) is as important for the overall greening of employment as shifting occupational employment shares (“between-effect”).
Second, we examine which occupations and task types contribute most to the within-effect, and which worker flows are mainly responsible for the between-effect.
Third, we demonstrate that the employment prospects of foreign and of low-skilled workers are most at risk from the green transition.
Participants
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Professor Ronald Bachmann (Presenter)Head of Labour Markets, Education, and Population Research at RWI -
Dr. Christina Vonnahme (Presenter)Team Lead, Ecological Transformation and Labor Markets, RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research -
Takaaki Kizu (Discussant)Skills Development Officer, Skills and Employability Branch, International Labour Organization -
Hannah Liepmann (Moderator)Economist, Research Department, International Labour Organization