Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240418 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Working Paper No. 2020/09
Version Description: 
Version October 2020
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
In this paper, we use a data-driven approach to predict the "green potential" of ISCO occupations based on their corresponding skills. With this information, we can investigate the relationship between environmental regulations and occupation-level employment in the manufacturing sector of 19 European countries for the period 1992-2010. Our empirical results highlight heterogeneous occupational employment changes in response to an increase in environmental policy stringency. More specically, we nd a decrease in labor demand for occupations with relatively low green potential and an increase for occupations with relatively high green potential. Thus, at least in the short term, greening the economy may create winners and losers across occupations and countries.
Subjects: 
environmental regulation
green transition
labor market
supervised learning
JEL: 
J23
J24
Q52
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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