Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Cerimelo Manuela
Author-Name-First: Manuela
Author-Name-Last: Cerimelo
Author-Name: De la Vega Pablo
Author-Name-First: Pablo
Author-Name-Last: De la Vega
Author-Name: Porto Natalia
Author-Name-First: Natalia
Author-Name-Last: Porto
Title: Beyond traditional wage premium. An analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
Abstract: 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 and explore possible heterogeneities that may arise within countries in the same region. 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 Porto et al. (2022). Our results suggest that the wage greenium for the period 2012-2019 was, on average, 23% in Latin America, ranging from 15% to 30%. Moreover, this wage
gap has remained relatively stable over the years.
Length:  15 pages
Creation-Date:  2023-11
File-URL: https://aaep.org.ar/works/works2023/4633.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 4633
Classification-JEL: E24, Q50
Handle: RePEc:aep:anales:4633