Title
Employment Impacts of Environmental Regulation
Project Dates
02/01/2012 - 02/01/2013
Description
This research paper addressed the issue of evaluating and improving potential links between employment impacts of environmental regulation and benefit-cost analysis. The research examined labor market conditions that would justify relaxing the full employment assumption within benefit-cost analysis. This information may be influential to the opportunity cost of unemployed labor and addresses the measurement of influential variables. The research was presented at two workshops in Washington, D.C.: a “planning” workshop in Spring 2012 and a “presentation” workshop in Fall 2012.
Sponsorship
Abt Associates, Inc.
Subject Area
LABOR MARKET ISSUES
COinS
Publications
The Social Value of Job Loss and Its Effect on the Costs of U.S. Environmental Regulations, Timothy J. Bartik. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 9(2)(2015)
Social Costs of Jobs Lost Due to Environmental Regulations. Timothy J. Bartik. Upjohn Institute Working Paper 13-193 (2013)