Project "PES: Green Jobs"
Project Title
Labor Market Policy Measures with Regard to the Greening of the Economy - Green Jobs against Unemployment?
Abstract
Preventing, mitigating and adapting to climate change presents opportunities and challenges for politics, business, society and nature, and thus for the world of work. At the same time as climate change, automation and digitization, ongoing structural change in the economy, globalization, demographics and social change are also having an impact on the world of work. As a result, new areas of employment are being created at different speeds and other sectors of the economy are disappearing. Work processes and work structures have to adapt to the new conditions, and new forms of employment are emerging. Some jobs are affected more than others; the spectrum ranges from the disappearance of entire jobs to modified work processes to changes in job descriptions in which areas of responsibility are eliminated or reduced and new areas of responsibility are added. This research project investigates the role that labor market policy can play in a socially balanced ecological transformation process. Furthermore, it will be investigated which approaches and initiatives for ecological sustainability already exist in labor market policy for the integration of unemployed persons. Finally, conclusions are formulated for Austria with regard to potential qualification requirements and employment potentials.
Project Management
Maga Andrea Egger, Maga Julia Bock-Schappelwein
Project Team
Mag.a Claudia Liebeswar
Project Start
12/2021
Project End
03/2023
Project Initiator
Public Employment Service Austria
Project Partner(s)
WIFO