Characterizing Green and Carbon-intensive Employment in India

• Tác giả: Andrés Ham
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 920.05 Biography, genealogy, insignia
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 297121
• Chủ đề: 1. BROWN JOBS; 2. CLIMATE CHANGE; 3. GREEN JOBS; 4. LABOR MARKETS; 5. SUSTAINABILITY

Tóm tắt

Transitioning toward sustainable development practices is expected to result in broad changes to economic activity, which will subsequently impact labor markets and change the demand for skills. India established the Skill Council for Green Jobs to identify green jobs and define the skills required for these occupations. This paper applies the Skill Council for Green Jobs definition of green jobs and an international definition of carbon-intensive jobs to data from the 2019-20 Periodic Labour Force Survey to estimate the size of green and carbon-intensive employment, document patterns between and within occupations, characterize workers by attributes and skills, and study wage differentials. The results highlight the importance of monitoring green and carbon-intensive jobs with robust labor market monitoring systems to guide decisions on the sustainability transition and suggest key aspects to consider when investing in green skills and the potential distributive consequences of sustainability policies on the population.