Employment effects for renewable energy industry: A literature review

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10.2991/icfied-17.2017.7How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Renewable energy, Employment effect, Estimation methods

Abstract

With the rapid development of renewable energy industry all around the world, a large amount of job opportunities are created. Under this circumstance, lots of scholars are devoted to the researches concerning the employment promoting ability of this new department, and have obtained amount of systematic research fruits. In this paper we present an up-to-date literature review on renewable energy employment effects, and summarize these studies in three aspects: employment types, measurement indexes and calculation methods. Our first conclusion is that employment effects are always divided into 3 types: direct effect, indirect effect and induced effect. The input-output (IO) or computable general equilibrium (CGE) models and spreadsheet-based analytical models are the two most broadly adopted methods to estimate the employment effects of renewable energy. However, these publications cover many different countries, several technology options, and have different assumptions so they present widely varying results derived from distinct methodological approaches. Therefore, at the end of this paper we provide corresponding suggestions and solutions based on the current problems.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yang Chen
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TI  - Employment effects for renewable energy industry: A literature review
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Financial Innovation and Economic Development (ICFIED 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5428
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