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  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201500" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201500</id>
  <updated>2026-04-29T22:30:07Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-29T22:30:07Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>Securing future-fit jobs in the green transformation: A policy framework for industrial policy</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279432" />
    <author>
      <name>Hafele, Jakob</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Le Lannou, Laure-Alizée</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Rochowicz, Nils</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Kuhls, Sonia</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279432</id>
    <updated>2023-12-23T02:43:28Z</updated>
    <published>2023-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Securing future-fit jobs in the green transformation: A policy framework for industrial policy
Authors: Hafele, Jakob; Le Lannou, Laure-Alizée; Rochowicz, Nils; Kuhls, Sonia; Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius
Abstract: Achieving compatibility between economies and planetary boundaries poses a momentous challenge. It requires a fundamental restructuring of current industrial systems, with a dual focus on the creation and protection of green technologies and firms, as well as the redirection of workers and technologies from ecologically harmful activities to support sustainable production patterns. This paper acknowledges that during the process of green industrial restructuring, certain non-future fit sectors will inevitably decline due to regulatory requirements or reduced competitiveness. Allowing market forces to solely determine the decline of these sectors would result in extensive economic and social consequences. Instead, this paper advocates for the implementation of active industrial policies to facilitate the phasing out of non-future-fit sectors and to ensure a just transition for the workers affected. To this end, the paper introduces a data-driven political framework with two objectives: 1) identify emission-intensive sectors with limited potential to stay competitive (non-future-fit sectors) and 2) identify sectors capable of absorbing workers from declining sectors while presenting better economic potential (complementary future-fit sectors). Despite the data limitations, applying this framework in Germany and Hungary reveals two significant challenges. First, the results indicate a limited number of skill-related sectors able to absorb workers from declining industries, highlighting the reluctance of workers to adapt to the changing landscape due to the costs associated with retraining and relocation. Second, a market-driven approach to the green transformation is likely to result in gradual shifts, requiring ongoing worker retraining as other problematic sectors decline. These preliminary findings underscore the need to anticipate these challenges and prioritise worker retraining and skill development, particularly in cases where there are limited complementary future-fit sectors.</summary>
    <dc:date>2023-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Trade-off or tension: Can carbon be priced without risking economic competitiveness?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270985" />
    <author>
      <name>Hafele, Jakob</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Kuhls, Sonia</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270985</id>
    <updated>2023-12-11T03:03:04Z</updated>
    <published>2022-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Trade-off or tension: Can carbon be priced without risking economic competitiveness?
Authors: Hafele, Jakob; Kuhls, Sonia
Abstract: While reducing industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is undoubtedly necessary to avoid an ecological disaster, political support for environmental regulation depends largely on its effectiveness and expected side-effects. A potential fallout often associated with environmental policies is a decline in economic competitiveness. Therefore, it is vital to understand whether there is a trade-off, implying that climate mitigation policies necessarily lead to competitiveness losses, or if a suitable policy design can achieve climate change mitigation without risking significant losses in competitiveness. This paper provides a systematic overview of the existing literature - including modelling studies and econometric analyses - regarding the association between GHG emissions reductions and competitiveness risks. To structure the literature, we develop a framework that allows us to cluster the reviewed papers by their theoretical and their empirical approach, rendering possible the analysis of differences between the resulting clusters. Scrutinising the findings of 80 papers, we determine that declines in competitiveness and industrial relocation to unregulated countries (carbon leakage) have so far not been relevant outcomes of existing environmental policies, neither on the firm nor on the country level. Nevertheless, they should not be neglected in the assessment of future policies, as modelling studies foresee small but significant levels of comparative disadvantages and carbon leakage. We discuss potential reasons for this discrepancy between study approaches. Overall, the empirical evidence suggests that carbon pricing regulation and economic competitiveness can be reconciled under specific circumstances, which must be provided by a coherent policy mix that takes climate change mitigation seriously while addressing possible negative side-effects.</summary>
    <dc:date>2022-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>(Mis)measuring competitiveness: the quantification of a malleable concept in the European Semester</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242980" />
    <author>
      <name>Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Hager, Theresa</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242980</id>
    <updated>2023-11-13T02:06:35Z</updated>
    <published>2021-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: (Mis)measuring competitiveness: the quantification of a malleable concept in the European Semester
Authors: Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Hager, Theresa
Abstract: This paper studies the conceptualization and quantification of 'competitiveness' within the main policy coordination framework of the EU, the European Semester. This topic warrants attention since 'competitiveness' is not only of central importance in the European policy discourse, but also a theoretically ambiguous and malleable concept with conflicting accentuations, all of which are subject of considerable academic and political debate. By investigating the translation of competition as a contested theoretical concept into concrete indicators within a legally binding document, the paper produces three main insights that deserve further attention, both scientifically and politically. First, the indicators of the semester mainly measure cost rather than technological competitiveness, indicating a constriction of the concept at the operational level. Second, while EU policy documents regularly stress the competitiveness of the European Union as a whole, the indicators in the semester measure individual country competitiveness. Finally, the indicators in the Semester measure how the competitiveness of single Member States changes over time, not how they perform relative to others. This shallows the heterogeneity of countries, which is problematic given recent findings according to which absolute differentials of competitiveness across Member States is one important driver of accelerating polarization patterns in the Union.</summary>
    <dc:date>2021-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Making markets just: Reciprocity violations as key intervention points</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235556" />
    <author>
      <name>Richters, Oliver</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Siemoneit, Andreas</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235556</id>
    <updated>2023-11-17T02:09:54Z</updated>
    <published>2021-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Making markets just: Reciprocity violations as key intervention points
Authors: Richters, Oliver; Siemoneit, Andreas
Abstract: Worldwide, politics are challenged to achieve economic stability, socialjustice, and ecological sustainability. These goals are often played offagainst each other,and some suspect that market economies (aka capitalism) are basically unable to solvethese dilemmas. This article explores the normative foundations of market economy asa robust, self-regulating system enabling just exchange in large (anonymous) groups.The primary principle of justice for market exchange is reciprocity, i.e., the balanceof costs and benefits from any kind of social exchange. The corresponding socialnorm is calledMeritocratic Principle. It can be implemented and its contestednessavoided by concentrating on "non-merit", i.e., institutionally draining the wellspringsof systematically undeserved incomes (economic rents). Economic rents as violationsof reciprocity can be viewed as a key problem of justice in any economic system. Thispolitical compass can guide consistent policy measures and is applied to two economichot spots: land rents and resource consumption. The measures discussed follow theGerman neo-liberal ideal of an "economic order" by setting only few general caps.This improves stability, justice and sustainability of market economies and makes theliberal vision of self-regulating markets more realistic.</summary>
    <dc:date>2021-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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