Dynamic panel analysis reveals energy import dependency negatively correlates with employment rates across 26 European countries, highlighting the labor market impacts of energy transition policies.
Energy transitions reshape not only energy supply and demand but also the broader socio-technical, environmental, and economic conditions that influence the resilience of European economies. This study examines whether selected energy and environment-related indicators are associated with employment-rate dynamics in 26 European countries over the period 2005–2022. Harmonised Eurostat indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals monitoring framework are used as empirical proxies for system-level characteristics, rather than as normative measures of SDG implementation. Employment rate by citizenship is treated as an observable indicator of labour-market adjustment within the broader process of sustainable energy-system transformation. The empirical analysis applies a dynamic panel-data model with autoregressive and distributed lag components, estimated using weighted least squares. The results indicate that employment-rate dynamics are associated with energy demand, import dependency, energy productivity, household energy conditions, transport structure, recycling capacity, and environmental pressure. Import dependency shows a negative long-term association, whereas final energy consumption is positively associated with employment-rate dynamics. The study contributes to energy-sustainability research by interpreting labour-market adjustment as one dimension of a resilient and just energy transition.
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