eprintid: 32602
rev_number: 18
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datestamp: 2019-07-08 13:51:30
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creators_name: Costa, Helia
creators_name: Veiga, Linda
creators_idrefppn: 253505003
creators_idrefppn: 249082802
creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics
title: Local labor impact of wind energy investment: an analysis of Portuguese municipalities
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abstract: Investment in wind power has grown remarkably in the past decades in Portugal. Although economic development is an argument for investment incentive policies, little evidence exists as to their net impact on local-level unemployment. Using a panel of all 278 Portuguese mainland municipalities for the years 1997-2017, we assess the existence, distribution and duration of local level labor impacts of wind power investment. Our results show there are short term effects during the construction phase. We estimate a decrease of 0.05 percentage points in the total unemployment rate for each KW per capita installed. These effects are confined to unskilled labor and male workers. Further analysis of spatial interaction finds positive spatial spillovers for municipalities that are 30km or less away but not farther, implying workers are willing to commute but not migrate. We find no evidence of sustained effects or impact during the operations and maintenance phase, despite both short and long term impacts in municipalities' revenues.
date: 2019-07
date_type: published
publisher: TSE Working Paper
official_url: https://www.tse-fr.eu/sites/default/files/TSE/documents/doc/wp/2019/wp_tse_1023.pdf
faculty: tse
divisions: tse
keywords: Wind power
keywords: labor effectsf panel data
language: en
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view_date_year: 2019
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
series: TSE Working Paper
volume: 19-1023
place_of_pub: Toulouse
pages: 30
institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
department: Toulouse School of Economics
book_title: TSE Working Paper
oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:123160
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citation:   Costa, Helia <https://www.idref.fr/253505003> and Veiga, Linda <https://www.idref.fr/249082802>  (2019) Local labor impact of wind energy investment: an analysis of Portuguese municipalities.  TSE Working Paper, n. 19-1023, Toulouse     
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/32602/1/wp_tse_1023.pdf