Green skill-based recommendation system
In every job we do, we bring a core set of necessary skills and often, through on-the-job training, we acquire additional skills to help us execute our work satisfactorily. A close similarity between jobs implies that if the green transition impacts an individual, they can effectively leverage existing skills along with purposeful reskilling to transition between jobs. Using the green skill-based recommendation system we developed, we provide the job options and reskilling requirements for all jobs in the economy.
The system consists of a multidimensional green skill space and a unidimensional skill dissimilarity heatmap, both offering insights into occupational transitions within the green economy. This system identifies transition options for jobs within the same level of career preparation by visually displaying similar jobs that utilize their existing skills in the green skill space. It presents a sorted order of transition options of green/neutral/brown occupations in the green skill dissimilarity heatmap. By decomposing the dissimilarity through a comparison of green skills, the system clearly outlines the re-skilling requirements necessary for successful job transitions. The recommendation system equips job seekers, career switchers, and policymakers with information about potential green career options and the re-skilling requirements based on their current skill endowments.
Green Skills
What are green skills? Identify green skill through LASSO regression.
Workflow of Building the Green Skill-based System
- Build on the skill space by green skills.
- Construst the green skill dissimilarity to show how close jobs are in terms of green skills.
| Interactive Green Skill Space. | Interactive Green Skill Dissimilarity between any pair of occupations. |
|---|---|
| - For all jobs in the economy, their green category, and their location in green skill space. | - For all jobs in the economy, their green category, and their location in green skill space. |
| - Green skill space by the level of education, experiences, and training (job zone). | - Green skill space by the level of education, experiences, and training (job zone). |
Data
- Occupational Green Potentia Index.
- Green occuptions.
- Brown occuptions.
- Skills and job zones.
Others
- Skill Space using full set of skills
- Crosswalk.
- For a copy of the working paper, please email:
📧 yangchengagecon@gmail.com
📧 cheng297@wisc.edu