Labour Conditions and Their Impact on the Development of Green Economies in 2020 Chapter in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • Nowadays, there is a global interest in making economies green, but how can we make them so? The economic agents, meaning, families, business and the state participate as a whole by performing activities that reduce their ecological footprint. For this purpose, research has been done in several areas to determine the impact certain factors have on ecology; thus, we propose a study in this paper that aims to show the impact that labour conditions have in green economies; specifically, a multivariate regression analysis is made between the CO$$:{2}$$ emissions per capita and five variables representing the labour conditions, which are average monthly earnings of employees, level of national compliance to labour rights, percentage of population covered by at least one social protection benefit, unemployment annual rate age 15+ and working poverty rate. This analysis is made employing data from 196 countries in 2020. The results show that of all the variables the ones that are significant for the regression model are the percentage of population covered by at least one social protection benefit and the working poverty rate, where the first is positively related while the second is negatively related to the level of CO$$:{2}$$ emissions, which indicates that the actual labour conditions are not appropriate for the development of green economies, and thus, changes must be made so that employees have better labour conditions, and this does not translate into damaging the environment. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

publication date

  • January 1, 2023