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• Date: 01 December 2018
• Published date: 01 December 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12064

International

Labour

Review

2018 4 > Volume 157/4 December

Contents

519 Does climate action destroy jobs? An assessment of the employment

implications of the 2-degree goal

Guillermo MONTT, Kirsten S. WIEBE, Marek HARSDORFF,

Moana SIMAS, Antoine BONNET and Richard WOOD

The Paris Agreement lays out the objective of keeping global warming below 2 °C.

The goal can be achieved by increasing both the share of renewables in the energy

mix and energy efciency. Such action entails a transformation of the energy sector,

which, given its linkages with the rest of the economy, will have a knock-on effect

on other sectors. Using scenarios based on a multiregional input–output database,

this article explores the economy-wide and worldwide employment impact of such

a transition. Findings suggest that by 2030 most economies will experience net job

creation and reallocation across industries. Job creation is driven by the construc-

tion, manufacturing and renewables sectors.

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557 Gendered costs of austerity: The effects of welfare regime

and government policies on employment across the OECD, 2000–13

Sidita KUSHI and Ian P. McMANUS

This article proposes a thorough analysis of the gendered impact of government

policies applied during the Great Recession on unemployment across 28 OECD

countries following an empirical estimation using random effects modelling with

data from 2000 to 2013 to test the inuence of welfare systems. Results point to

a signicant effect of welfare regime even beyond the crisis, primarily through

social expenditure levels and public sector employment dynamics, which mainly