| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w30332 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 30332 |
| Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They, and Where Are They? | |
| E. Mark Curtis; Ioana Marinescu | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-08-08 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Does the growth of renewable energy benefit US workers, and which workers stand to benefit the most? Until now, evidence on green energy jobs has been limited due to measurement issues. We use data on nearly all jobs posted online in the US, as collected by Burning Glass Technology, and we create a new measure of green jobs, defined here as solar and wind jobs. We use job titles and task requirements to define green jobs. We find that both solar and wind job postings have more than tripled since 2010, with solar jobs seeing especially strong growth that precedes the growth of new installed solar capacity. In 2019, we identify approximately 52,500 solar job openings and 13,500 wind job openings. Solar jobs are mostly (33%) in sales occupations, and in the utilities industry (16%). Wind jobs are most represented among installation and maintenance occupations (37%), and in the manufacturing industry (29%). Green jobs are created in occupations that are about 21% higher paying than average. The pay premium is even higher for jobs with a low educational requirement. Finally, green jobs tend to locate in counties with high shares of employment in fossil fuel extraction. Overall, our results suggest that the growth of renewable energy leads to the creation of relatively high paying jobs, which are more often than not located in areas that stand to lose from a decline in fossil fuel extraction jobs. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30332 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/588004 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | E. Mark Curtis,Ioana Marinescu. Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They, and Where Are They?. 2022. |
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| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w30332.pdf（2002KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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