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Dickinson, Peter and Cardenas Rubio, Jeisson (2022) Green jobs and skills in South Yorkshire. South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA).
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Abstract
The report analyses the number and nature of green jobs and skills in South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority area in 2022.
The analysis of green jobs and skills is not an exact science. This is because there are different definitions of green jobs – purist and inclusive – which lead to different estimates.
On a more purist definition, there were 3,902 green jobs in SYMCA, this amounts to less than 1% of total employment, with most working in one sector: other energy efficient products. Such green jobs also make up small proportions of employment in any sector. Using a broader more inclusive definition increases the number of green jobs to around one in five (17%) of total employment in SYMCA. Most of these represent existing jobs that require enhancements to their competencies in order to contribute to the green economy. They are mostly in managerial, professional, associate professional and skilled trade occupations. As most green jobs are green enhanced occupations. This means that the green economy will require a range of transferable, functional and technical skills that for the most part are existing skills and knowledge that will require enhancing and/or updating rather than a bank of new competency requirements. They have much in common with the skills and knowledge in non green jobs.
Green jobs are a much larger proportion of vacancies (45%) than employment (17%). This may suggest that green jobs are in more demand. Green jobs in both SYMCA and England have increased since the first UK lockdown ended in Summer 2020. However, in SYMCA non green jobs were in greatest demand post-lockdown and, apart from certain peaks and troughs, this trend has continued.
In both SYMCA and England, green jobs pay more because they tend to be located in better paid occupations i.e. managerial, professional and associate professional occupations. Therefore it is not the green content of jobs per se that attracts a wage premium but the fact that most green jobs are in better paid occupations.
Item Type: | Report | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Skilled labor -- Supply and demand -- England -- South Yorkshire,, Life skills -- England -- South Yorkshire, Sustainable development -- Employees -- England -- South Yorkshire | ||||||
Publisher: | South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) | ||||||
Official Date: | July 2022 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 40 | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 September 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 September 2023 | ||||||
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