Climate policy uncertainty and enterprise labor outsourcing

WeiWei Li, Zhenxing Huang, Ruilei Huang and Zihao Ning

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 246, issue C

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of climate policy uncertainty on labor outsourcing among Chinese-listed companies from 2012 to 2022. We find that increased climate policy uncertainty prompts firms to choose labor outsourcing. The results hold even after several robustness tests and controlling for endogeneity. Moreover, our cross-sectional analyses indicate that the main effect is more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises and firms without government employment stability subsidies.

Keywords: Climate policy uncertainty; Labor outsourcing; Nature of property rights; Government subsidy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 J20 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.112066

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