Pollution abatement and employment |
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| Authors: | Rolf Färe Shawna Grosskopf Carl A. PasurkaJr. Ron Shadbegian |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Department of Economics,Oregon State University,Corvallis,USA;2.Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics,Oregon State University,Corvallis,USA;3.Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,University of Maryland,College Park,USA;4.U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1809T) Office of Policy,Washington,USA;5.Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,National University of Singapore,Singapore,Singapore;6.Center for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE),Ume?,Sweden |
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Morgenstern et al. (J Environ Econ Manag 43:412–436, 2002. 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. |
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