{"id":64010,"date":"2023-01-23T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=publication&p=64010"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:36:22","slug":"skills-and-wage-gaps-in-the-low-carbon-transition-comparing-job-vacancy-data-from-the-us-and-uk","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/publication\/skills-and-wage-gaps-in-the-low-carbon-transition-comparing-job-vacancy-data-from-the-us-and-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills and wage gaps in the low-carbon transition: comparing job vacancy data from the US and UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What are low-carbon jobs and where are they emerging? What skills are needed to fill these roles and are they already present in the labour force in the right locations? Do low-carbon jobs pay a good wage? How can we ensure workers in jobs at risk from the low-carbon transition are not left behind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report provides a detailed characterisation of low-carbon jobs from the last decade in the United States and the United Kingdom. It brings new evidence to support policy discussions. The report draws out the characteristics of low-carbon jobs in general, and aspects that are driven by distinctive national patterns. It summarises findings from a recent Grantham Research Institute working paper<\/a> by Saussay et al. (2022) that uses online job vacancy data to develop a novel methodology to precisely identify low-carbon jobs and characterise the skill requirements and other attributes of low-carbon jobs in the US between 2010 and 2019. It then presents and compares these findings with new results from a similar analysis on the UK carried out for the period 2012 to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The job advertisement data combined with methods developed in this research offer a powerful toolkit for understanding the changing demand for skills in the low-carbon transition and quantifying reallocation costs associated with reskilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main messages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n