This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …

potentially green industries outperform the others in terms of employment, average wages, value added and productivity, net of … implies an increase in employment and value added. In contrast, average wages and labour productivity remain unchanged. These …