Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies
Author-Name: Gordon Hanson
Abstract: THE CHALLENGE Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy
  sources is well underway, but substantially reducing the use of fossil
  fuels in everyday life will profoundly disrupt the communities that
  currently dedicate themselves to carbon-intensive industries. In his
  chapter, “Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition:
  Prospects and Policies,” author Gordon Hanson considers the potential
  for adverse labor market consequences from the energy transition and the
  suitability of existing policies to counteract them. Particularly, he
  discusses how to avoid repeating the painful adjustment to globalization
  and automation, which brought long-lasting economic distress to labor
  markets specialized in manufacturing. Hanson makes three policy
  recommendations.
Creation-Date: 2022-12-01
Keywords: labor economics, energy, environmental economics
File-URL: https://www.economicstrategygroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Local-Labor-Market-Impacts-of-the-Energy-Transition.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14026841
Handle: RePEc:cxx:wpaper:local-labor-market-impacts-of-the-energy-transition