David Popp - Syracuse
Environmental Regulation and Green Skills: An Empirical Exploration
Date: 03/03/2016 (Thu)
Time: 3:15pm- 4:45pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Building 09 Room 137 at RTI Campus
Organizer: Steven Sexton
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All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
11:00am - Chris Timmins
11:30am - Marc Jeuland - Rubenstein 188
12:00pm - Lunch
3:15pm - Seminar Presentation (3:15pm to 4:45pm)
Additional Comments: 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.