A BEJEAP Topics article.

Abstract

This paper revisits the 'jobs versus the environment' debate and provides the first analysis for a country other than the US. We firstly examine the impact of environmental regulations on employment assuming such regulations are exogenous. However, for the first time in a study of this nature, we then allow environmental regulation costs and employment to be endogenously determined. Environmental regulation costs are not found to have a statistically significant effect on employment whether such costs are treated as being exogenous or endogenous. We therefore find no evidence of a trade-off between jobs and the environment.

Submitted: September 11, 2006 · Accepted: June 19, 2007 · Published: June 25, 2007

Recommended Citation

Cole, Matthew A. and Elliott, Rob J. (2007) "Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 28.
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1668
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol7/iss1/art28