Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205334 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2019-044/VII
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
By conducting a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the net employment effects of renewable energy, we explore the extent to which the reported net employment effects are driven by the applied methodology. We find that the reported conclusions on net employment effects are to a large extent driven by the methodology that is applied, where computable general equilibrium (CGE) and I/O methods that include induced effects and studies that consider only the near future in their study period (up to 2020) are generally less optimistic about net employment creation in the wake of the energy transition. In addition, we found that policy reports have a greater tendency to report a positive net employment effect than academic studies.
Subjects: 
renewable energy
net employment
meta-analysis
circular economy
JEL: 
J21
P18
Q42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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