Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281126 
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Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 019.2023
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Developing and emerging economies face enormous challenges to reconcile economic development and job creation with decarbonization. An essential aspect of such "early-stage" decoupling of growth and carbon emissions is to develop a skill base that favours the diffusion of green productions and technologies. This paper sheds light on the role of the adjustments in the skill supply and of labour market institutions to pursue such early stage decoupling in developing and emerging economies. The paper begins by defining green growth strategies and the associated green skill requirement. To overcome measurement issues and data limitations, it then assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the task-based approach to green labour markets, emphasizing critical issues for developing countries as well as the opportunities to collect original data. Finally, it derives some policy recommendations to solve the coordination failure between investments in skills, particularly technical skills, and green technology adoption.
Subjects: 
skills
tasks
green economy
developing and emerging economies
structural change
green technological change
labour market institutions
JEL: 
J24
Q56
O13
O14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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