 Can environmental regulation solve pollution problems? Theoretical model and empirical research based on the skill premiumAilun Wang, Shuo Hu and Boqiang Lin () Energy Economics, 2021, vol. 94, issue C Abstract: As the most populous country with huge fossil energy consumption, China's employment and environmental problems have attracted worldwide attention. This paper contributes to the existing research by measuring both employment and environmental problems using a two-layer nested dixit-Stiglitz model and taking the skill premium as a mediator to analyze the direct and indirect effects of environmental regulation on environmental pollution. It is found that: (1) the impact of environmental regulation on the skill premium is U-shaped. (2) the impact of environmental regulation on environmental pollution is inverted U-shaped, and the indirect effect through skill premium is significantly negative. (3) the environmental regulations in most parts of China have not reached the level of promoting skill premium and reducing environmental pollution for most of the time. (4) China's skill premium can play a better role in reducing emissions in places with high-coal consumption Keywords: Environmental regulation; Skill premium; Environmental pollution; Nested dixit-Stiglitz model; Mediating effect (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:94:y:2021:i:c:s0140988320304084 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2020.105068 Access Statistics for this article Energy Economics is currently edited by R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant More articles in Energy Economics from Elsevier |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.