Environmental regulation and green skills : an empirical exploration
Abstract
We present a data-driven methodology to identify occupational skills that are relevant for
environmental sustainability. We find that these green skills are mostly engineering and
technical know-how related to the design, production, management and monitoring of
technology. We also evaluate the effect of environmental regulation on the demand of green
skills exploiting exogenous geographical variation in regulatory stringency for a panel of US
metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas over the period 2006-2014. Our results suggest that,
while these recent changes in environmental regulation have no impact on overall
employment, they create significant gaps in the demand for some green skills, especially
those related to technical and engineering skills.
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