Green Jobs Myths

Morriss, Andrew P.; Bogart, William T.; Dorchak, Andrew; Meiners, Roger E.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1358423

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“…8 The Álvarez (2009) research has been widely discussed and is similar in nature to Morriss et al (2009). Both of these unpublished papers have been criticised for not explaining what the alternative was to the investment in renewable energy which makes a study of the net effects difficult.…”

Section: Us Green Employment In 2011mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States

Elliott

Lindley

2017

Ecological Economics

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Green growth is increasingly being seen as a means of simultaneously meeting current and future climate change obligations and reducing unemployment. This paper uses detailed industry-level data from the Bureau of Labor Statistic's Green Goods and Services survey to examine how the provision of so-called green goods and services has affected various aspects of the US economy. Our descriptive results reveal that those states and industries that were relatively green in 2010 became even greener in 2011. To investigate further we include green goods and services in a production function. The results show that between 2010 and 2011 industries that have increased their share of green employment have reduced their productivity although this negative correlation was only for the manufacture of green goods and not for the supply of green services. In further analysis we investigate skill-technology complementarities in the production of green goods and services and show that industries that increased their provision of green goods and services grew more slowly, reduced their expenditure on technology inputs and increased their demand for medium educated workers, whilst simultaneously reducing their demand for lower skilled workers.

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Section: Us Green Employment In 2011mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He then concludes that 2.2 jobs are not created for each green job that was created. Morriss et al (2009) put the figure at $107,000 per new job in the renewables sector. However, they point out that the definition of a green job is not clear.…”

Section: Us Green Employment In 2011mentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States

Elliott

Lindley

2017

Ecological Economics

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“…Green growth and employment OECD (2011) Investing in the green sector associated to job creation potential. Becker and Shadbegian (2008); Morriss et al (2009);Michaels and Murphy (2009);Hughes (2011).…”

Section: Macro-level Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alternative studies have claimed that the employment benefit of green technologies has been overestimated, arguing that environmental policies, as initiatives aimed at providing incentives in environmental innovation, may have much less attractive labor market consequences (e.g. Michaels and Murphy, 2009;Morriss et al, 2009;Hughes, 2011). Becker and Shadbegian (2008) examine the environmental product manufactures using a 1995 survey data for the United States, finding that they did not perform differently in terms of wage, employment, output, and exports than non-environmental product plants.…”

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The greener the better? Job creation effects of environmentally-friendly technological change

Gagliardi¹,

Marin

Miriello

2016

Ind Corp Change

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This article investigates the link between environment-related innovation and job creation at firm level. Employing Italian data on 4507 manufacturing firms, matched with patent records for the period 2001-2008, we test whether "green" innovation, measured by the number of environment-related patents, has a positive effect on long-run employment growth that is specific with respect to non-environmental innovation. Results show a strong positive impact of "green" innovation on long-run job creation, substantially bigger than the effect of other innovations. Our findings are robust to a number of additional tests including controls for patents' quality and cost differential between generic and "green" innovation and endogeneity.

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“…It is vital to identify the social groups that stand to lose from industrial restructuring and the extra burden of emissions reduction policies and environmental taxes (United Nations Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), ). Many estimates of green job growth give little recognition to the serious problems likely to arise from jobs lost in industries that are no longer in favour, such as heavy manufacturing and coal power generation (Morriss et al, ). The World Bank talks about allocating resources to compensate losers, but welfare is no substitute for productive employment.…”

Section: Short‐comings Of the Green Economy And Green Growth Strategiesmentioning

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The Green Economy: Incremental Change or Transformation?

Borel-Saladin¹,

Turok²

2013

Env Pol Gov

157

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The concept of the green economy presented in three reports from leading global organizations is examined in this paper. These include the United Nations Environment Programme's Towards a Green Economy, the World Bank's Inclusive Green Growth and the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development's Towards Green Growth. The main critiques of the concept of the green economy are also considered. Contrary to views that the green economy merely represents ‘green‐washing’ and tweaking of the current economic system, this paper concludes that the green economy has the potential to effect substantive and transformative change towards the goal of sustainable development. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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Green Jobs Myths

Cited by 23 publications

References 39 publications

Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States

Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States

The greener the better? Job creation effects of environmentally-friendly technological change

The Green Economy: Incremental Change or Transformation?

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