Green Jobs and the Saudi Gender Wage Gap: Explained and Unexplained

Saudi Arabia has made great strides recently in increasing female labor force participation, reaching the Vision 2030 goal of 30% in late 2020, almost a decade early. With labor force participation achieved, the conversation now turns to labor market outcomes, and an increasing gender pay gap in particular. Following a recent discovery that Saudi women are lagging behind men in uptake of green jobs – jobs that are either created, augmented or see increased demand as a result of the energy transition and associated climate commitments -, this group of occupations is used to analyze the source of this widening wage gap.

Cian Mulligan

Fellow- Energy Macro & Microeconomics Cian has been a member of the Energy Macro- and Microeconomics team since March 2018. Focusing on analyzing the employment…

Cian has been a member of the Energy Macro- and Microeconomics team since March 2018. Focusing on analyzing the employment benefits of the energy transition, he has authored a series of studies that shed light on issues relevant to the modern Saudi labor market in light of Saudi Vision 2030. His recent research interests include analysis of green jobs in Saudi Arabia, Saudi female labor force participation, and optimizing local content policy design. He has presented research at multiple international conferences and worked and studied in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Taiwan, as well as his native country of Ireland.

Expertise

Labor Economics
Green Jobs
Employment Policy
Local Content Policy

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