Labour in the Low-carbon Transition
The research program Labour in the Low-carbon Transition (LILT) studies topics related to the effect of climate policies, green subsidies and broad green deal plans on the structure of the economy. The particular focus on labour market effects across workers with different skills and qualifications is the entry point of the research agenda conducted within this program. The concept of skills is crucial to understand both the distributional effects of climate policies and the building up of a comparative advantage in key sectors, such as renewable energy generation, electric vehicles and storage technologies. The program has been organized in four projects.
The first project explores the structural features of the low-carbon transition: the skill content of green and brown jobs, the relationship between job creation and green productions and other structural aspects of the low-carbon transition related to innovation, comparative advantage, emission and productivity dynamics.
The second project examines the effect of several policies on the employment dynamics of workers with different skills, considering both the winners and the losers in the labour market and the effect of policies on wages and profits. A related objective of this project is to examine the effect of deindustrialization in European local labour markets, with a particular focus on displaced workers in carbon-intensive industries.
The third project is conceived on the political-economy of the low-carbon transition. It seeks to understand the extent to which distributional effects along several dimensions affect the formation of political preferences for green policies as well as the role of low-carbon and fossil fuel lobbies in shaping the political process at the European level.
The fourth project is based on a long-term research activity, namely building a disequilibrium model to assess the transitional costs associated with the reallocation of workers from high- to low-carbon jobs. The idea is to construct a theoretical framework to quantify the transitional costs of the low-carbon transition, the role of distributional effects and of emerging political resistances on the outcomes of transition towards a low-carbon economy.
Publications
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Working Paper | 25.10.2023
Skills and human capital for the low-carbon transition in developing and emerging economies
Francesco Vona (University of Milan and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei)
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Journal Articles | 04.07.2023
The institutional wage adjustment to import competition: evidence from the Italian collective bargaining system
Alessia Matano (Department of Economy and Law, University of Roma “La Sapienza” and AQR-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona); Paolo Naticchioni (University of Rome Tre and INPS-DCSR); Francesco Vona (OFCE Sciences-Po, SKEMA Business School, University Côte d’Azur GREDEG, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, and FEEM)
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Journal Articles | 27.04.2023
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach
Tommaso Ferraresi (IRPET); Leonardo Ghezzi (IRPET); Fabio Vanni (Department of Economics, University of Insubria and Sciences Po, OFCE); Alessandro Caiani (Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia (IUSS), Classe Scienze Tecnologie e Società, Research Centre on Climate change impAct studies for RISk MAnagement); Mattia Guerini (Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, GREDEG-CNRS Université Côte d’Azur and Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Francesco Lamperti (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Institute of Economics and EMbeDS, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment); Severin Reissl (Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Classe Scienze Tecnologie e Società, Research Centre on Climate change impAct studies for RISk MAnagement); Giorgio Fagiolo (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Institute of Economics and EMbeDS); Mauro Napoletano (University of Brescia, Sciences Po OFCE and Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Andrea Roventini (Sciences Po, OFCE, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Institute of Economics and EMbeDS)