Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113973 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 72.2015
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
While policymakers talk of "green skills", there is little systematic empirical research on the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. We propose a data-driven methodology to identify green skills and to gauge the ways in which the demand for these competences respond to environmental regulation. We find that green skills are high-level analytical and technical know-how related to the design, production, management and monitoring of technology. Environmental regulation triggers technological and organizational changes that increase the demand for these skills. Our analysis suggests also that this is not just a compositional change in skill demand due to job losses in sectors highly exposed to trade and regulation.
Subjects: 
Green Skills
Environmental Regulation
Task Model
Workforce Composition
Structural Shocks
JEL: 
J24
Q52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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