Also: opening journal emails while travelling is always risky 😅 This time, the acceptance landed in Rome — and made the trip considerably more enjoyable ✨
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On a more personal note:
Writing, presenting, revising & publishing this paper was a long learning process that shaped my computational, communication & research skills. Seeing my first single-authored paper appear just before submitting my dissertation feels especially meaningful. 7/8
Implications 📊
Practical:
→ assess reskilling needs & just-transition risks
→ target labour-market & training policy
Theoretical:
→ connects green transition research with broader work on structural & technological labour-market transitions.
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What this enables 🌍
• High granularity (4-digit ISCO / 6-digit SOC)
• Cross-sectional comparisons across economies
• Identification of worker-level mobility barriers/opportunities
Adds a new analytical layer beyond sector-level transition studies.
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Core contribution 🔎
A flexible, reproducible measure of green skill transferability based on:
• Sentence-BERT embeddings
• automated text classification
Captures similarity between occupational skill profiles → proxy for realistic mobility pathways.
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Research gap🧩
We often discuss green transitions at the industry level.
But mobility happens at the worker/skill level.
👉 What skills actually transfer from brown to green jobs?
👉 For which workers is transition more feasible?
👉 How does this relate to sectoral exposure to the green transition?
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tl:dr
I develop a reliable, NLP-based indicator of green skill transferability to study workers’ chances of moving from “brown” to “green” jobs — enabling worker-level, cross-country analysis of mobility in the green transition. This is crucial to make the green transition also a just transition.2/8
New paper (first single-authored) in Ecological Economics 🎉
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Who makes the green transition on the labor market? How can we try to measure this? How does it add to broader research on the political economy of economic transitions?
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