ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT: A REASSESSMENT

Anna Belova, Wayne Gray, Joshua Linn and Richard D. Morgenstern

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of environmental regulation on industry employment, using a structural model based on data from the Census Bureau’s Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Survey. This model was developed in an earlier paper (Morgenstern, Pizer, and Shih (2002) - MPS). We extend MPS by examining additional industries and additional years. We find widely varying estimates across industries, including many implausibly large positive employment effects. We explore several possible explanations for these results, without reaching a satisfactory conclusion. Our results call into question the frequent use of the average impacts estimated by MPS as a basis for calculating the quantitative impacts of new environmental regulations on employment.

Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2013-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-env, nep-lab, nep-reg, nep-res and nep-spo
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