Implications of the Energy Transition on Employment: Today’s Results, Tomorrow’s Needs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Ravillard ◽  
J. Enrique Chueca ◽  
Mariana Weiss ◽  
Michelle Carvalho Metanias Hallack
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Recovery Phase ◽  
Employment Creation ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
And Training

As countries progress in their energy transitions, new investments have the potential to create employment. This is crucial, as countries enter their post-pandemic recovery phase. An opportunity also arises to close the gender gap in the energy sector. However, how much will need to be invested, how many jobs will be created, and for whom, remain empirical questions. Little is also known about the needs of each country and their sectors in terms of future skills and training. The present work sheds light on these questions by carrying out a harmonized firm-level survey on employment in Chile, Uruguay, and Bolivia. Findings are manifold. First, firms in emerging sectors such as energy efficiency, electric mobility, battery, storage, hydrogen, and demand management, create more direct jobs than generation firms, including renewables. Second, these firms also have the potential to create employment that is local, permanent, and direct. Finally, they can contribute to closing the gender gap. However, this employment creation will not come on its own and will not be equal between countries. It will require improving the workforces qualifications and considering each countrys labor market and market structures specificities.

Precarious Work and Young Workers in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne L. Kalleberg
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Severe Problem ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Us ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
And Training

This chapter discusses how the growth of precarious work and the polarization of the US labor market have produced major problems for the employment experiences of young workers. A prominent indicator of young workers’ difficulties in the labor market has been the sharp increase in their unemployment rates since the Great Recession. Another, equally if not more severe, problem faced by young workers today is the relatively low quality of the jobs that they were able to get. Other problems include the exclusion of young workers from the labor market and from education and training opportunities; the inability to find jobs that utilize their education, training, and skills; and the inability to obtain jobs that provide them with an opportunity to get a foothold in a career that would lead to progressively better jobs and thus be able to construct career narratives.

scholarly journals Vocational training choice from a regional perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Schuster ◽  
Anne Margarian
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Local Competition ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Welfare Implications ◽  
Urban Labor Markets ◽  
And Training

AbstractMotivated by discussions of skill mismatches on local German vocational educational and training (VET) markets, this paper analyses how occupational segments of VET entry of individuals with lower and intermediate secondary school degree relate to local labor market characteristics. The econometric analysis applies data from a survey conducted with 9th graders within the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Considering opportunity structures and the local competition for training positions, we find that the match between occupations' skill demands and individuals' abilities tends to be specifically close in diverse and competitive urban labor markets. In non-competitive peripheral labor markets, in contrast, graduates with lower school certificates seem to have a higher likelihood of entering VET in segments that are specifically attractive for graduates with upper secondary school degree. The results on the allocation of abilities and the weight of preferences under different labor market conditions have different welfare implications from an individual, regional and general economic perspective.

Lessons for low-carbon energy transition: Experience from the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binu Parthan ◽  
Marianne Osterkorn ◽  
Matthew Kennedy ◽  
St. John Hoskyns ◽  
Morgan Bazilian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Transition Experience ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

Educational and Training Program to Increase SME’s Energy Efficiency Skills

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denisa Stet ◽  
Levente Czumbil ◽  
Andrei Ceclan ◽  
Stefan Cirstea ◽  
Alexandru Muresan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Training Program ◽  
And Training

Bicycling and Gender: Targeting Guides to Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Riggs ◽  
Megyn Rugh ◽  
Kelly Chung ◽  
Jana Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Women Consumers ◽  
Transportation Demand ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Mode Of Transportation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gap Data

As the usage of bicycles increases, cities are transforming their planning processes to incorporate this sustainable mode of transportation. In spite of bicycling’s importance to communities, there is a gender gap. Data indicates that only a small number of cyclists are women. This paper addresses that gender gap with an eye toward the marketing strategy known as transportation demand management (TDM). TDM provides lessons for communities looking to encourage greater levels of bicycle riding. To do this we review the literature on best practices in marketing to women, and evaluate different bicycle marketing guides. We find, after an analysis to pinpoint best practices, that only 15% of the marketing guides are targeted to women. The lessons learned from our study provide information for the design of future bicycle guides that will appeal to women consumers.

scholarly journals Recent trends in the gender gap in the labor market in the Philippines

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1&2) ◽  
pp. 173-186
Author(s):  
Mitzie Irene Conchada ◽  
Dominique Hannah Sy ◽  
Marites Tionco ◽  
Alfredo Paloyo
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Recent Trends

scholarly journals Teacher’s Competency Model in Vocational Education and Training within Uncertainty of Labor Markets (On the Example of L.B. Krasin Moscow Vocational School of Creative Industries)

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
L.M. Tabatadze
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Competency Model ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
And Training

In the article the author presents a relevant experience of designing an actual competency model of an educator in vocational education and training (VET) which is based on the researches of the world and Russian labor markets. There is explained a term “innovative segment of a labor market” and given risks of vocational education and training in part of its interaction with this segment. The author made an analysis of trends affecting the vocational education and training development and analyzed data of the VET economics monitoring. The approach to designing a competency model of an educator in VET is described in consideration of the transforming role of an educator. The L.B. Krasin vocational school of creative industries experience in designing a competency model of an educator is presented, the competency models is given with detailed description of the competencies. Keywords: vocational education and training, VET, staff development, labor market, innovative segment human capital, educator, competency model.

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