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Carbon Markets and Green Innovation Location: D-105 Session Chair: Aurelien Saussay, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | |
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Will green innovation augment or automate labor? 1: London School of Economics; 2: University of Milan We measure the labor orientation of green innovation-whether patented low-carbon technologies are oriented towards automating existing tasks or towards the creation of new work. Using 1.3 million U.S. patents filed between 1980--2022 and CPC climate tags (Y02 and Y04S), we construct a patent-level labor-orientation index from semantic similarity between patent text and occupational task descriptions and newly emerging work titles, following Autor et al. (2024). We find heterogeneity across green technologies: green ICT and smart grids are relatively labor-augmenting, while adaptation is more labor-augmenting. Within renewable and electric vehicle patents, the labor-augmenting share declines over time. We then relate patent orientation to diffusion in a patent-by-technology panel that matches patents to country-level deployment in physical units: higher lagged deployment predicts a lower labor-augmenting share conditional on rich sets of country and technology-specific fixed effects and trends. While these estimates are not causal, they are consistent with learning-by-doing whereby scaling and standardization tilt green inventive activity towards more labor-saving content. | |