Did Smog Rules Influence Who Loses? Manufacturing Job Losses and the Great Recession

Autor:	Brooks Depro
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Pollution Economics and Econometrics Labour economics media_common.quotation_subject Economics Business cycle Environmental policy Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Job loss Great recession media_common
Zdroj:	Land Economics. 97:475-490
ISSN:	1543-8325 0023-7639
DOI:	10.3368/le.97.2.475
Popis:	Several studies of environmental policy have shown that clean air rules may lead to job losses. It is not clear, however, if the rules’ job effects vary with the business cycle. I show that during the Great Recession, rules that targeted smog pollution did influence which industries suffered job losses. The industries that were most likely to suffer faced higher costs associated with new smog controls. Compared with control groups, employment fell by an extra 3%. The results support claims that the new smog controls shifted the incidence of the job losses brought about by the Great Recession.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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