The skill requirements of the circular economy

Bibliographic Data

ID14865167
AuthorsDuygu Buyukyazici (0000-0002-2435-2962, Université Toulouse-I-Capitole), Francesco Quatraro (0000-0001-5746-2239, Collegio Carlo Alberto, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume232
Pages108559
Publication date2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEcological Economics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0921-8009 • E-ISSN: 1873-6106
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108559
OpenAlexW4408013555
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited55

In response to global challenges related to resource scarcity and environmental concerns, the circular economy (CE) has emerged as a transformative model focused on resource efficiency and waste reduction. As the discourse around the CE intensifies, understanding the skill requirements of the CE becomes imperative for effective policy-making, workforce development, and regional competitiveness. This paper addresses the scarcity of quantitative methods on this aspect and proposes a conceptual and empirical framework to identify, analyse, and monitor the skill requirements of the CE through a comprehensive and reproducible approach based on relative skill advantage, skill relatedness, and skill complexity measures. Accordingly, it identifies the essential and complementary skills within the CE by constructing unique skill spaces and documents their regional variation

Circular economy · Economics · Natural resource economics · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Sustainable Industrial Ecology · Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Ecology

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