Quaderni IRCrES 19. Cap.1

Capitolo 1

Transizione verde e mercato del lavoro:
analisi dell’impatto delle politiche ambientali sul contenuto del lavoro in Europa

Green transition and the labour market: Analysis of the impact of environmental policies on job content in Europe

Roberto Gallo

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Laurea Magistrale in Politiche Pubbliche, curriculum Modelli e strumenti per la gestione del welfare e dello sviluppo sostenibile (MOST), Largo A. Gemelli 1, 20123 Milano, Italia

corresponding author: roberto.gallo01@icatt.it

 

Abstract

This study aims to investigate whether environmental policies related to the green transition can induce qualitative changes in the EU labour market. Additionally, it seeks to understand whether these changes are comparable to those observed following the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the early 2000s. For this purpose, the theoretical framework, based on the Routine-Biased (or Task-Biased) Technological Change (RBTC) model by Autor, Levy & Murnane (2003), identifies the degree of “routine-ness” of tasks related to the activities performed by each worker as the key variable for understanding the effects of innovation on the labour market. The estimation results appear to suggest that the impact of environmental policies on job content not only resembles that induced by ICT technologies but is even more pronounced, being associated with a greater reduction in the degree of “routine-ness” of tasks.

Keywords: green transition, labour market, distributional impacts, employment impacts, Just Transition.

 

doi: 10.23760/2499-6661.2023.19.01

isbn: 978-88-98193-34-9

issn (online): 2499-6661

 

How to cite

Gallo, R. (2023). Transizione verde e mercato del lavoro: analisi dell’impatto delle politiche ambientali sul contenuto del lavoro in Europa. In M. Nosvelli (cur.). Ambiente, salute e lavoro: analisi empiriche per uno sviluppo integrato (pp. 9-22). Quaderni IRCrES 19. CNR-IRCrES. http://dx.doi.org/10.23760/2499-6661.2023.19.01