Energy and employment: issues and an agenda for research. [Monograph]

Book · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6707359

The Economic Policy Council of the United Nations Association of the USA formed the Energy and Jobs Panel in 1978 to examine the relationship between energy and economic policy. They found that little study had been made of the employment effects of national conservation and alternate fuel programs, even though the need to plan for dislocations is essential when personnel and skill demands change. A close look should be taken at government intervention in retraining and in financial-assistance programs as part of the assessment of energy development. A high priority is recommended to studies of: (1) the degree to which capital, energy, and labor are substitutable or complementary; (2) geographic and industrial shifts in demand, production, and employment associated with changing energy supply and price; and (3) employment effects of conservation and of changing the energy mix, either through alternate technologies or by substitutions of coal for oil and gas. 9 references.

• OSTI ID: 6707359
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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ECONOMIC POLICY
EMPLOYMENT
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
POPULATION RELOCATION
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
TRAINING