dc.contributor.author	Ferré, Céline
dc.contributor.author	Christiaensen, Luc
dc.contributor.author	Gajderowicz, Tomasz
dc.contributor.author	Ruppert Bulmer, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.author	Wrona, Sylwia
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-06T20:14:20Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-06T20:14:20Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	Part of a three-region set of papers analyzing coal-related labor market challenges in Poland, this paper focuses on Silesia. The findings call for a more territorial-oriented approach to brokering the coal transition, rather than a sectoral one. First, the number of jobs directly linked to coal-mining in Silesia is substantial, with 72,000 employees in the mining conglomerates, and an additional 17,000 providing goods and services to the mines. Second, coal-related employment is heavily concentrated geographically: as much as 40 percent of the population of Bieruńsko-Iedziński is employed directly and indirectly in the mining sector, and 80 percent of the mining conglomerates' contract value goes to subcontractors within a 20km radius of the mines. Third, the coal sector is highly integrated among a few large firms: 28 percent of the indirect workforce is employed by 10 subcontractors. Fourth, workers in the mining conglomerates have lower foundational (but better technical) skills than their regional and national counterparts, especially those with lower education. Finally, while eager to work, discrete choice experiments about their job attribute preferences show that they are averse to both, commuting and relocating for work, even though less so than in Wielkopolska, yet more so that in Lower Silesia, the two other regions. Together this suggests that there are important welfare and political economic benefits to adequate job creation locally. The paper further advances a data-driven viable-job-matching tool specifically tailored to the Polish labor market and illustrates how it could be used to assess the potential of local labor markets and future investments to absorb the coal-affected workers accounting for their skills profile, re/upskilling needs, and job attribute preferences.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099721210062220918/IDU0766a573c0e7bd040930a81b095ae2377689f
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/38119
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/38119
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Jobs Working Papers;No. 70
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	COAL TRANSITION
dc.subject	TERRITORIAL-ORIENTED APPROACH
dc.subject	COAL-MINING JOBS
dc.subject	COAL-MINING EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject	LOCAL JOB CREATION
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET
dc.title	Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People’s Perspectives from Silesia	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People’s Perspectives from Silesia
okr.date.disclosure	2022-10-06
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-05T11:53:07.339814Z
okr.date.lastmodified	2022-10-06T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Working Papers::Other papers
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099721210062220918/IDU0766a573c0e7bd040930a81b095ae2377689f
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	IDU-766a573c-e7bd-4093-a81b-95ae2377689f
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okr.identifier.report	176630
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099721210062220918/pdf/IDU0766a573c0e7bd040930a81b095ae2377689f.pdf	en
okr.region.country	Poland
okr.topic	Energy::Coal and Lignite
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Employment and Shared Growth
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topic	Environment::Green Issues
okr.unit	JOBS- CCSA - IBRD (HSPJB)
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