Environmental Regulation,Employment Reallocation and Social Welfare

doi:10.13438/j.cnki.jdxb.2021.05.009

Abstract

Abstract: The gradual strengthening of environmental regulation in China has led to the reallocation of employment between and within industries,and further affected social welfare.Based on the data of 37 industries in China from 2003 to 2017,it is found that the impact of environmental regulation on social welfare is an inverted U-shaped relationship that rises first and then decreases.34 industries have not crossed the inflection point at the present stage.Compared with polluting industries,employment reallocation in cleaning industries can significantly improve social welfare,and the results of the intermediary effect model show that the masking effect of employment reallocation in the whole industry and polluting industries on social welfare is negative.Therefore,in order to achieve the win-win goal of ecological optimization and social welfare improvement,it is necessary to identify the optimal environmental regulation intensity of various industries and increase the intensity of environmental regulation for those industries that have not passed the inflection point.the social welfare compensation of environmental regulation can also be reduced by improving the flexible matching between the demand side and the supply side of employment.

Key words: environmental regulation, social welfare, employment reallocation, intermediary effect, masking effect

QIAO Bin. Environmental Regulation,Employment Reallocation and Social Welfare[J]. Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences Edition), 2021, 42(5): 76-86.

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