Green Procurement Implications on the Labor Market in the Context of the Transition to The Green Economy
Green Procurement Implications on the Labor Market in the Context of the Transition to The Green Economy

Summary/Abstract: The adoption of green procurement has implications on the labor market because of thechanges that occur in the economic structure. The purpose of the article is to contribute to abetter understanding of the concept and policies regarding green procurement as well as theimplications on the Romanian labor market of the transition to the green economy throughgreen procurement. In this regard, several analyses have been made; an analysis of thecurrent situation, a forecast, on secondary data, of the main trends of the Romanian labormarket, compared with those of the EU28, a regression between the number of green jobsand the environmental protection expenditure as well as a cluster analysis in EU 28countries to capture SMEs' perceptions of resource efficiency and green markets. Theanalysed data comes from official statistics of EUROSTAT, to which we have added thedata from CEDEFOP and those collected within Eurobarometer 381. From the analysis ofthe data it turned out that there are certain structural imbalances in the labor market inRomania, which could be accentuated by implementing green procurement; a positiverelationship at EU level between environmental protection expenditure and green jobs andinsignificant differences between countries on green markets and resource efficiency.

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