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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w26093 |
来源ID | Working Paper 26093 |
Jobs and Environmental Regulation | |
Marc A. C. Hafstead; Roberton C. Williams III | |
发表日期 | 2019-07-22 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Political debates around environmental regulation often center around the effect of policy on jobs. Opponents decry the “job-killing” EPA and proponents point to “green jobs” as a positive policy outcome. And beyond the political debates, Congress requires the EPA to evaluate “potential losses or shifts of employment” that regulations under the Clean Air Act may cause. Yet there is a sharp disconnect between the political importance of the jobs question and the limited research on job effects of policy and general skepticism in the academic literature about the importance of those job effects for the costs and benefits of environmental regulation. In this paper, we discuss how the existing research on jobs and environmental regulations often falls short in evaluating these questions and consider recent new work that has attempted to address these problems. We provide an intuitive discussion of key questions for how job effects should enter into economic analysis of regulations. And, using an economic model from Hafstead, Williams, and Chen (2018), we evaluate a range of environmental regulations in both the short and long-run to develop a set of key stylized facts related to jobs and environmental regulations and to identify the key questions that current models can’t yet answer well. |
主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26093 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583766 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marc A. C. Hafstead,Roberton C. Williams III. Jobs and Environmental Regulation. 2019. |
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