Workshop on the Labour Market Impacts of the Green Transition

Date:: 3 February, 5:30 pm - 4 February 2026, 4:15 pm
Venue:: London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE

We are pleased to announce a two-day event examining the labour market implications of the green transition. The programme will begin on Tuesday 3 February, with an evening reception from 5:30pm to 7:00pm in the Senior Common Room (Old Building, 5th Floor). The session will feature keynote addresses by Francesco Vona (University of Milan) and Giovanni Marin (University of Urbino Carlo Bo). On Wednesday 4 February, the event will continue with a full-day workshop in Room 2.02, Centre Building, starting at 9:00am (refreshments available from 8:30am). Lunch will be provided, and the workshop will conclude at approximately 4:15pm.

Workshop overview

This workshop brings together applied economists to present and discuss research on jobs, wages, mobility, skills and organisational change linked to decarbonisation. The workshop aims to accelerate frontier empirical work, foster collaboration both for research and impact. The programme will focus on research that leverages novel data and econometric techniques to study the impact of the green transition on labour markets. gThis workshop is supported by funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
(CCCEP) and the LSE Global School of Sustainability

Programme

Day 1 – Tuesday 3 February 2026
Location: Staff Common Room, 5th floor, Old Building (OLD)

5:30pm-7:00pm Welcome, drinks reception and keynote
Chair: Misato Sato (LSE)
Keynote speakers: Francesco Vona (University of Milan) and
Giovanni Marin (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

Day 2 – Wednesday 4 February 2026
Location: CBG 2.02 (morning) & CBG 2.06 (afternoon), 2nd floor, Centre Building (CBG)

8:30am Coffee and pastries

9:00am Welcome & Introduction (Misato Sato, LSE)

9:05am-9:55am Session 1: Technological change and skills

Chair: Ben Crawford, LSE
Joanna Napierla (CEDEFOP) – Tracking skill demand in the green digital shift: the case of the circular economy uptake through online job ads data
Aurélien Saussay (LSE) – Will green innovation augment or automate labor?

9:55am-10:45 Session 2: Adjustment frictions, mobility, and outside options

Chair: Misato Sato, LSE
Federico Frattini (FEEM) – Skills and job mobility in the green transition: Evidence from Italy
Jisung Park (University of Pennsylvania) – Local labor market conditions and adaptation to climate change: The role of workers’ outside options

10:45am-11:05am Coffee Break

11:05am-12:20pm Session 3: Green wage premia and distributional impacts
Chair: Aurélien Saussay, LSE

Christina Vonnahme (RWI) – Wages in the Green Transition
Rob Elliott (University of Birmingham) – Estimating the green wage premium
Leanne Cass (University of Helsinki) – Returns to green tasks in Europe: Evidence from online job vacancies

12:20pm-2:00pm Lunch (Staff Dining Room)

2:00pm-2:50pm Session 4: Fossil sector contraction and worker reallocation
Chair: Ben Crawford, LSE

Minwoo Hyun (UC Santa Barbara / U.S. Census Bureau) – Trapped or Transferred: Worker Mobility and Labor Market Power in the Energy Transition
Elisabeth Isaksen (Frisch Centre) – Labor Market Impacts of the Green Transition: Evidence from a Contraction in the Oil Industry

2:50pm Coffee break

3:00pm-4:10pm Session 5 Policy evaluation and green industrial policy

Chair: Misato Sato, LSE
Markus Janser (IAB) – Climate Policy, Manufacturing Competitiveness and the Decision to Exit: Evidence from Germany
Gustav Fredriksson (Trinity College Dublin) – Labor Reallocation, Green Subsidies and Unemployment
Maren Holthe Hedne (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) – Carbon taxes, emissions and labor demand: Evidence from Norway

4:15pm Close

How to attend

Please note that the workshop is by invitation on. The reception is open to the public, but capacity is limited. To attend the reception, please register in advance here.