EMSI recently hosted a labor market data 101 webinar. The following is the Q&A from the webinar, which touches on a number of important and timely EMSI updates and data features. We’ve also included the webinar PowerPoint for download.
Nov. 23, 2011 | Posted by Joshua WrightPosts Tagged ‘Green Jobs’
The Great Green Hope Turns Out To Be A Dud (At Least In The Short Term)
“The gigantic public investments in green energy may be stimulating innovation and helping the environment. But they are not evidence that the government knows how to create private-sector jobs,” writes David Brooks of The New York Times.
Sep. 6, 2011 | Posted by Joshua WrightA Look at Green Jobs in Minnesota and Elsewhere
Beginning with a series of papers last year, we pointed out that many greens jobs are simply a recasting of traditional jobs that fall into the construction and manufacturing sectors (e.g., welders, roofers, HVAC installers.) Construction and manufacturing have experienced major losses in recent years, and now — at least in Minnesota — it appears the green economy has hit a snag too.
Nov. 2, 2010 | Posted by Joshua WrightCommerce Dept: Green Jobs Comprise 2% of Economy At Most
Earlier this month, the Department of Commerce published a report that goes into detail on the green economy. According to “Measuring the Green Economy,” the green share of the economy was 2% in the broadest sense as of 2007, and perhaps somewhere closer to 1%.
May. 19, 2010 | Posted by Joshua WrightGreening the Environment and Creating Jobs
One of the themes in our recent series of whitepapers on green jobs is how to weigh economic and job-creation issues against environmental concerns. The same topic is raised in the Christian Science Monitor by guest blogger Matthew E. Kahn.
May. 10, 2010 | Posted by Joshua Wright“Green” Policy and Regional Development: Third Observation and Final Remark
Click here for Second Observation Third Observation: It Needs to Be Data-Driven In the United States, we have a huge amount of data at our disposal for development decisions. Our nation has over 1,800 (and counting) well-established industry codes (NAICS codes) that are standardized for the entire country. The 20 big industry sectors that compose [...]
Oct. 28, 2009 | Posted by Joshua Wright“Green” Policy and Regional Development: Second Observation
Click here for First Observation Second Observation: “Policy” Versus “Environment” Right now, the primary struggles with green development seem to come from: (1) actually understanding what “green” is and (2) knowing which industries people need to be prepared for. In many ways, this might be because green is happening according to a top-down, policy driven [...]
Oct. 28, 2009 | Posted by Joshua Wright“Green” Policy and Regional Development: First Observation
For the introduction click here First Observation: Chasing Trends Versus Being Demand Driven Imagine that for the past 20 years you have been laboring under the hood of your region’s economy, working with local industries, educators, and other leaders to craft better strategies, develop the workforce, and encourage business in the region. Let’s also say [...]
Oct. 28, 2009 | Posted by Joshua Wright“Green” Policy and Regional Development
Editor’s note: This is an op-ed piece by Rob Sentz, EMSI’s marketing director and author of a series of five green jobs papers. Click here for a PDF version of this piece. Illustration by Mark Beauchamp Introduction Over the past year, EMSI has been fielding questions from local planners (workforce boards, community colleges, and economic [...]
Oct. 28, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightGreen Job Grants and Community Colleges
In the latest edition of Community College Journal, Corey Murray takes a detailed look at emerging green fields and what they want mean for community colleges — specifically CC grant writers. Community College Times released a section of the article here. Murray points out that many community colleges are coming up with funding for new [...]
Oct. 21, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightSpotlight on O*NET’s New Occupation Titles
From the green sector to video game design, an assortment of industries have been expanded to include new occupation titles, according to O*NET’s latest directory. Twelve of the job titles were detailed in this Yahoo! HotJobs article. Many are adaptions of existing occupations (e.g., wind energy engineers are similar to civil engineers). The latest directory [...]
Oct. 12, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightCA’s Industry and Workforce Studies Around the Green Economy
The California-based Centers of Excellence has released a new study entitled “Understanding the Green Economy: A Community College Perspective.” A lot of work has gone into this study, and the paper delivers on some pretty serious goals: To provide definitions for green jobs and green firms to allow for consistent use and understanding Illustrate various [...]
Jun. 29, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightAnalysis of green O*NET-SOC clusters
A couple of weeks ago we linked to a neat report put out by the O*NET Resource Center, called “Greening the World of Work.” The report used O*NET codes to establish a starting point for understanding green jobs. In order to run labor market analysis, link to staffing industries, and establish trends over time, we [...]
Jun. 29, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightGreen Jobs, Part 5: How to Prepare Jobseekers for the Green Economy
Summary: This paper is meant as a practical guide to help workforce, education, economic development professionals (and any other sort of career counselor) understand green jobs and be able to offer solid advice to young people and jobseekers so they can get on the right track and in the context of the demands of the [...]
May. 20, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightOccupational Profile of a Wind Manufacturing Firm
After reading the National Council for Workforce Education’s paper on the role community colleges play in growing a green workforce, we thought it would be interesting to look at some data and employment trends for the sort of occupations employed at a company that manufactures wind turbines. The NCWE report includes a typical employee profile [...]
Apr. 27, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightGreen Jobs, Part 3: Green Pathways
Green Jobs, part 3: A data-driven approach to defining, quantifying, and harnessing the green economy To read Green Pathways (PDF): EMSI green jobs part 3 data spotlight Summary At the local level, the discussion of green jobs should be rooted in data as much as possible. As regions consider major investments in the green economy [...]
Mar. 4, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightGreen Jobs, Part 2: Which (Green) Project is Best for your Region?
Green Jobs, part 2 – Assessing Workforce and Economic Impacts, Return on Investment of stimulus projects Last month we took a look at some occupations that would likely be affected by the new administration’s “green policy.” To review last month’s article click here. This month we want to bring in more perspectives like working layoff [...]
Feb. 4, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightTennessee at the center of green jobs wave
With more details coming out almost daily on the Obama administration’s proposed economic stimulus plan, the creation of green jobs has become a hot-button issue. But even before the need arose to jolt the economy out a major downturn, Tennessee was positioning itself to become a big-time player in the alternative energy industry. The state [...]
Jan. 12, 2009 | Posted by Joshua WrightGreen Jobs, Part 1: A Look at “Green” Occupations
In this first installment, we will take a look at some of the implications of policy to create green jobs. Over the coming weeks and months we will be releasing periodic articles, essays, white papers, data spotlights and other perspectives around green jobs. The goal is to help local practitioners know and understand this issue [...]
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