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- Title
Pollution abatement and employment.
- Authors
Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Pasurka, Carl A.; Shadbegian, Ron
- Abstract
Morgenstern et al. (J Environ Econ Manag 43:412–436, <xref>2002</xref>. doi:10.1006/jeem.2001.1191) are well-known for its investigation of the employment effects of environmental regulations. However, the cost function specified in that paper is handicapped by its reliance on survey data of the costs of inputs assigned to pollution abatement. In this paper, we specify an input distance function that models the joint production of good and bad outputs. This allows us to measure the relative importance of factors associated with changes in employment without pollution abatement cost data. We operationalize our model using a sample of 80 coal-fired electric power plants from 1995 to 2005.
- Subjects
POLLUTION; ABATEMENT (Atmospheric chemistry); GREEN technology; CHEMICAL decomposition; ENVIRONMENTAL regulations; ELECTRIC power plants
- Publication
Empirical Economics, 2018, Vol 54, Issue 1, p259
- ISSN
0377-7332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00181-016-1205-2