Jobs Impact of Green Energy

May 27, 2022

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Jaden Kim, and Adil Mohommad. Jobs Impact of Green Energy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2022) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This brief paper accompanies the Green Energy and Jobs tool, which is a simple excel-based tool to estimate the job-creation potential of greening the electricity sector. Specifically, it calculates the net job gains or losses from increasing the level of energy efficiency, and from increasing the share of clean and renewable electricity generation in the total electricity output mix. The tool relies on estimates of job multipliers in the literature, and adds evidence from firm-level data on the job-intensity of different energy sources. The paper illustrates applications of the tool using data from the IEA’s Sustainable Development Scenario compared to business-as-usual. This tool is intended to help country teams engage further on climate change issues in bilateral surveillance.

Subject: Commodities, Electricity, Environment, Job creation, Labor, Non-renewable resources, Renewable energy, Technology

Keywords: Electricity, Electricity generation, Electricity sector, Global, Job creation, Job multiplier, Jobs, Jobs tool, Net job gain, Non-renewable resources, Renewable energy, Sustainable development

Publication Details

Pages:

17
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Working Paper No. 2022/101
Stock No:

WPIEA2022101
ISBN:

9798400210631
ISSN:

1018-5941

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