Beyond traditional wage premium: an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America

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Cerimelo, Manuela; De La Vega, Pablo; Porto, Natalia; Vazquez, Franco
Año de publicación
2024
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This paper estimates wage differentials between green and non-green jobs (wage greenium) in nine major Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay), which account for 81% of the region’s GDP. We contribute to the recent literature highlighting a positive wage gap for those working in green jobs in developed countries. A positive wage gap for green jobs may be a virtuous market feature, as it means that in the future workers might be encouraged to switch to greener occupations. To do so, we define green jobs as those occupations with high greenness scores using the occupational approach as in Vona et al. (2018), Vona (2021) and de la Vega et al. (2024). Our results suggest that the wage greenium for the period 2012-2019 in Latin America was between 18% to 22%. Moreover, this wage gap has remained relatively stable over the years.
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Ciencias Económicas
labor markets
green jobs
wage premium
wage differentials
Latin America
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title Beyond traditional wage premium: an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
spellingShingle Beyond traditional wage premium: an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
Cerimelo, Manuela
Ciencias Económicas
labor markets
green jobs
wage premium
wage differentials
Latin America
title_short Beyond traditional wage premium: an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
title_full Beyond traditional wage premium: an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
title_fullStr Beyond traditional wage premium: an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Beyond traditional wage premium: an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
title_sort Beyond traditional wage premium: an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cerimelo, Manuela
De La Vega, Pablo
Porto, Natalia
Vazquez, Franco
author Cerimelo, Manuela
author_facet Cerimelo, Manuela
De La Vega, Pablo
Porto, Natalia
Vazquez, Franco
author_role author
author2 De La Vega, Pablo
Porto, Natalia
Vazquez, Franco
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
labor markets
green jobs
wage premium
wage differentials
Latin America
topic Ciencias Económicas
labor markets
green jobs
wage premium
wage differentials
Latin America
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper estimates wage differentials between green and non-green jobs (wage greenium) in nine major Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay), which account for 81% of the region’s GDP. We contribute to the recent literature highlighting a positive wage gap for those working in green jobs in developed countries. A positive wage gap for green jobs may be a virtuous market feature, as it means that in the future workers might be encouraged to switch to greener occupations. To do so, we define green jobs as those occupations with high greenness scores using the occupational approach as in Vona et al. (2018), Vona (2021) and de la Vega et al. (2024). Our results suggest that the wage greenium for the period 2012-2019 in Latin America was between 18% to 22%. Moreover, this wage gap has remained relatively stable over the years.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
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