Scotland’s Green Jobs Conundrum : How to Better Measure the Employment Impact of a Low Carbon Future

摘要: The political ambition to turn Scotland into a low carbon economy, powered by renewable energy technologies, is driven, in part, the belief that such transformation will reindustrialise country and generate tens of thousands skilled jobs. This paper reviews Scottish strategy since 1999 notes stronger policy link recent years between investment related employment growth. evolution this has culminated explicit, ambitious targets for green jobs created. However, defining complex. Three estimates came quite disparate conclusions. There an underlying problem: current lack appropriate disaggregation categories economic accounts. Were available, it would provide robust reproducible measures defined activities. It also identify causal drivers measured (current) where these lie on “temporary-long term” or “domestic-global” axes. Economic accounts, disaggregated way, help demonstrate whether specific interventions are delivering forecast. In our view, greater conceptual clarity more significant allocation resources need be devoted measurement activity activities allow any meaningful evaluation area.