] found that the capital
investment on renewable energy technology also has positive
impacts on job creation. In the Portuguese case, Oliveira et al.
[21] suggested that official goals for RES-E job creation are overestimated.
Additionally, several computable general equilibrium
(CGE) studies have concluded that current renewable energy policy
has a net positive effect in job creation [22,23]. Conversely, in the
case of Canada and using a CGE model, Böhringer et al. [24]
concluded that policies designed to promote renewable energy
have negative impacts on employment. Negative impacts on job
creation have been also found by Alvarez et al. [25], whose
methodology has in turn been contested by Lantz and Tegen
[26]. Lambert and Silva [9] presents additional references on the
nexus of employment and renewable energy policy, and concludes
that the result of the analysis depends crucially on the spatial scale
considered.