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Contents
Abstract/Résumé 5
Introduction 6
Identifying high-polluting jobs: data sources 7
Eurostat Air Emissions accounts 8
National Accounts on employment by industry 11
UK Census data on the distribution of occupations by industry 11
Identifying high-polluting jobs: methodology 11
Identification of high-polluting industries 11
Identification of high-polluting occupations 15
Results and comparisons with previous literature 20
New estimates of high-polluting jobs across European countries 20
Robustness analysis 25
Concluding remarks 26
References 27
Table 1. Overview of recent definitions of high-polluting jobs 7
Table 2. Coverage of NACE industries 9
Table 3. High-polluting industries, country-by-country list 13
Table 4. Countries and industries affected by missing employment or pollution data 15
Table 5. High-polluting occupations, country-by-country list 17
Table 6. ISCO 3-digit occupations unmatched in the cross walk from UK SOC 20
Figure 1. Share of employment in high-polluting jobs across countries, 2011-2019 21
Figure 2. Cross-country differences in emission intensity by industry, 2019 21
Figure 3. The gender distribution of high-polluting jobs across countries, 2019 23
Figure 4. The education distribution of high-polluting jobs across countries, 2019 23
Figure 5. The age distribution of high-polluting jobs across countries, 2019 24
Figure 6. The prevalence of high-polluting and green jobs in rural and urban areas, 2019 25