The Skill Requirements of the Circular Economy

In response to global challenges regarding 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 intensifies, understanding the skill requirements of 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, analyze and monitor the skill requirements of 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 circular economy.