The focus has been mainly on the measurement of the green potential of jobs, particularly in developed countries (Bowen et al., 2018; Lobsiger and Rutzer, 2021), and on the differences between green and non-green jobs in terms of skills and human capital (Consoli et al., 2016; Rutzer and Niggli, 2020; Vona et al., 2018), and less on the quality and characteristics of green jobs (Valero et al., 202. [...] On the other hand, in Brazil and Mexico the wage premium is the highest of all countries: salaried workers in green jobs earn, on average, 22 (Brazil) and 30% (Mexico) more than those in non-green occupations using the binary definition of green jobs (and 19 (Brazil) and 17% (Mexico) more by the continuous definition). [...] Another aspect of the analysis of the wage premium in green jobs concerns the evolution of this wage gap over the period 2012-2019.( In Fig)ure 4, we study the evolution of the wage 12The implied wage gap is obtained as follows: eβ − 1 · 100. [...] 11 We contributed to the understanding of the current state of the transition to greener forms of production by analyzing wage differentials between green and non-green jobs (i.e., the wage greenium) in nine major countries of Latin America. [...] The information in our database reflects the fact that the proportion of workers with a high educational level is higher in the group of workers in green jobs.
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