The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Employment in Resource-Based Areas of China—An Empirical Research Based on the Mediating Effect Model

Wenbin Cao, Hui Wang and Huihui Ying
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Wenbin Cao: Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Business, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China
Hui Wang: Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Business, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China
Huihui Ying: Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Business, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Avenue, Wuxi 214122, China

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-11

Abstract: While environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious, many countries are adopting policies to control pollution. At the same time, the environmental regulation will inevitably affect economic and social development, especially employment growth. The environmental regulation will not only affect the scale of employment directly, but it will also have indirect effects by stimulating upgrades in the industrial structure and in technological innovation. This paper examines the impact of environmental regulation on employment, using a mediating model based on the data from five typical resource-based provinces in China from 2000 to 2015. The estimation is performed based on the system GMM (Generalized Method of Moments) estimator. The results show that the implementation of environmental regulation in resource-based areas has both a direct effect and a mediating effect on employment. These findings provide policy implications for these resource-based areas to promote the coordinating development between the environment and employment.

Keywords: employment effect; environmental regulation; mediating effect; system GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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