Dopo aver letto l’articolo della Dott.ssa Kristina J. Bartsch, direttrice dell’Ente federale USA, Occupational Outlook Division Bureau of Labor Statistics e collaborattrice del Presidente Barack Obama, le ho scritto una e mail in cui chiedevo le ragioni per cui nelle loro previsioni occupazionali non compariva il contributo della economia verde. Vedi il post precedente.
Incredibilmente, per le abitudini e le consuetudini italiane, la direttrice dell’Ente Federale Kristina J. Bartsch, mi ha riposto!
Riporto la sua gentilissima e mail in cui spiega le ragioni della mancata valutazione della green economy nelle previsioni del Bureau of Labor Statistic, una lettura molto interessante anche perché riporta una richiesta del Presidente non nota in Italia.
Dear Mr. Romboli,
Thank you for your question about the 2008-18 employment projections. I was out of the office last week and am just now catching up on my e-mail.
The BLS did not consider the green economy in the development of our projections because the green economy, in terms of employment and output, has not yet been defined or measured. Without a definition or an agreed-upon list of the occupations and industries that comprise the green economy, it is not possible to measure the contributions of green activity to economic growth. However, the BLS has been funded to develop a definition of and collect employment data for green jobs. The paragraph below, from the President’s budget for BLS, summarizes this effort:
As the chief source of government data on jobs, BLS will work with other DOL agencies and key organizations, such as the Energy Information Administration, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the National Science Foundation, to define the green economy and then to produce data on green-collar jobs. This initiative will produce regular quarterly tabulations of aggregate employment and wages for businesses whose primary activities can be defined as green, and produce information on the occupations involved in whole or in part in green economic activity. These series, the first of which will be published in 2011, will be key to analyzing workforce trends in the green economy.
Although the “green economy” was not formally factored into the projections model, BLS staff did consider it as part of the specific industries and occupations we studied while preparing our employment projections, but it is not separately identified as such. For example, if our research indicated that environment-related activities were expected to have some impact on the demand for a particular occupation, this would have been accounted for as the projections were developed. Please click here to link to additional explanation of the projections methodology: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_projections_methods.htm#occfactors
Nor did we include the impact of any proposed policies related to the green economy, which is consistent with our handling of other policy topics.
Thank you for your interest in the BLS projections.
Kristina Bartsch
Chief, Division of Occupational Outlook
Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections
Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20212