Disentangling the Greening of the Labour Market: The role of changing occupations and worker flows

This seminar will explore Germany’s green employment growth between 2012 and 2022, with insights from text-mining task data, worker flows, and the green transition’s impact on vulnerable workers.

The seminar will highlight findings from a new paper of the same name which explores green employment growth and its underlying mechanisms using a task-based approach. The paper seeks to answer three research questions. First, to what extent has employment become “greener”? Second, which factors have contributed to the greening of occupations over time, and to differences in the employment growth between brown and green occupations? Third, which individual-level consequences does the greening of the labour market have, e.g. through an increasing risk of unemployment for workers in brown occupations?