Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK

Matthew A. Cole and Rob J. Elliott
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Matthew A. Cole: University of Birmingham, UK
Rob J. Elliott: University of Birmingham, UK

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2007, vol. 7, issue 1

Abstract: This paper revisits the 'jobs versus the environment' debate and provides the first analysis for a country other than the US. We firstly examine the impact of environmental regulations on employment assuming such regulations are exogenous. However, for the first time in a study of this nature, we then allow environmental regulation costs and employment to be endogenously determined. Environmental regulation costs are not found to have a statistically significant effect on employment whether such costs are treated as being exogenous or endogenous. We therefore find no evidence of a trade-off between jobs and the environment.

Keywords: environmental regulations; employment; UK (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q52 L5 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007

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