Seminar in Macroeconomics - Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The Role of Changing Occupations and Worker Flows
Time
Monday, 11. December 2023
12:00 - 13:15
Location
F428
Organizer
Speaker:
Ronald Bachmann (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Essen; HHU Düsseldorf und IZA)
Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The Role of Changing Occupations and Worker Flows
(with Markus Janser (IAB), Florian Lehmer (IAB), Christina Vonnahme (RWI))
Abstract: Using a text-mining approach to task descriptions of occupations together with worker-level administrative data, we explore the growth in the greenness of employment which amounted to 35% between 2012 and 2022. We first demonstrate that the general greening of occupations (“within effect”) accounts for two thirds of the overall greening of employment, whereas shifting occupational employment shares (“between effect”) account for the remainder. Second, we show which occupations contribute most to the within-effect. Third, we provide evidence which worker flows are mainly responsible for the between effect, and which socio-demographic groups drive these labour-market transitions.