Energy transition and the creation of sustainable jobs are major concerns towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7 and 13, particularly in emerging petroleum-producing economies such as Ghana. Our study examines Ghana’s sectorial employment vulnerability to the dynamics of energy transition. Employing a dynamic ARDL simulation model, we use quarterly data from 2011 to 2021 from Ghana’s Energy Commission, the Bank of Ghana, and the Public Interest and Accounting Committee. We find that transition scenarios increase industrial sector employment. Also, industrial sector employment changes more favorably under the 5% scenario than under the 1% scenario. Agriculture industry employment is positively impacted by the 1% energy transition scenarios but negatively impacted by the 5% scenarios. Up to the sixth year, both transition scenarios increase employment in the services sector; however, employment opportunities are more affected by the 1% scenario than by the 5% scenario. Therefore, developing a policy architecture that aids Ghana’s transition to renewable energy is essential.

Purpose: This study examines the influences of remittances and governance in enhancing access to electricity in 40 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Design/methodology/approach: Using 5 years of non-overlapping from 1990 to 2022 using the system-generalised method of moment (System-GMM), with a particular focus on the rural-urban divide. Findings: Evidence from the unconditional regression indicates that an additional migrant remittance received results in 8.7% and 23.4% increase in rural and urban access to electricity respectively. Second, the interactive regressions also indicate that corruption control, voice and accountability and government effectiveness exhibit negative synergies with remittances to influence rural access to electricity. In urban SSA, corruption control has positive synergies with remittances to enhance access to electricity. Voice and accountability interact with remittance, yielding a governance threshold of 1.76, for complementary policies. Originality/value: The current empirical research bridges the research gap in the context of exploring the role that governance plays in influencing the effect of remittances on rural and urban access to electricity based on both conditional and unconditional analysis.