Does emissions trading affect labor demand? Evidence from the mining and manufacturing industries in China

被引:71
作者
Ren, Shenggang [1 ]
Liu, Donghua [1 ]
Li, Bo [1 ]
Wang, Yangjie [1 ]
Chen, Xiaohong [1 ]
机构
[1] Cent South Univ, Sch Business, Changsha 410083, Hunan, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Emissions trading program; Market-based regulation; Labor demand; Difference-in-differences; China; ENVIRONMENTAL-REGULATION; EXPORTS EVIDENCE; EMPLOYMENT; PERFORMANCE; POLICY; REGULATIONS; IMPACTS; JOBS; COMPETITIVENESS; PRODUCTIVITY;
D O I
10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109789
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
We use "China's sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions trading program" as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the causal effect of this market-based environmental regulation on firm's labor demand. Based on the difference-indifferences (DID) method and a series of robustness tests, we observe robust evidence that the emissions trading program significantly increases the labor demand of regulated firms, and that this positive employment effect is driven by the expansion of firm's production scale. The observable evidence leads us to cautiously conclude that the market-based environmental regulations in even developing countries could achieve the double dividend of coexistence of environmental protection and employment growth.
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