The DOI matches its Crossref record; 51 of the 54 references it cites were found in a registry or an index, and 1 are not checked yet.
Social Costs of Jobs Lost Due to Environmental Regulations
Open accessAbstract
This paper estimates the social costs of job loss due to environmental regulation. Per job lost, potential social costs of job loss are high, plausibly over $100,000 in present value costs (2012 dollars) per permanently lost job. However, these social costs will typically be far less than the earnings associated with lost jobs, because labor markets and workers adjust, increased leisure has some value, and employers benefit from wage reductions. A plausible range for social costs is 8-32 percent of the associated earnings of the lost jobs. Social costs will be higher for older workers, high-wage jobs, and in high unemployment conditions. Under plausible estimates of job loss for most environmental regulations, the social costs of job loss will typically be less than 10 percent of other measured social costs of regulations. Therefore, adding in job loss is unlikely to tip many regulatory benefit-cost analyses.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA
Oswald, A. J., & Blanchflower, D. G. (1999) · Cited by 2,800
Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies?
Bartik, T. J. (1991) · doi:10.17848/9780585223940 · Cited by 2,643
Self-citationWhat Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?
Frey, B. S., & Stutzer, A. (2002) · Journal of Economic Literature · doi:10.1257/jel.40.2.402 · Cited by 2,206
Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness
Di Tella, R., MacCulloch, R. J., & Oswald, A. J. (2001) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/aer.91.1.335 · Cited by 1,861
Mishan, E. J., & Quah, E. (2020) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781351029780 · Cited by 1,535
Job Search and Labor Market AnalysisPreprint
Mortensen, D. T. (1984) · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · Cited by 915
Moretti, E. (2010) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/aer.100.2.373 · Cited by 662
Chapter 15 Job search and labor market analysis
Mortensen, D. T. (1986) · Handbook of labour economics · doi:10.1016/s1573-4463(86)02005-9 · Cited by 624
Recessions and the Costs of Job Loss
Davis, S. J., & von Wachter, T. (2011) · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · doi:10.1353/eca.2011.0016 · Cited by 533
The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce*
Walker, W. R. (2013) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.1093/qje/qjt022 · Cited by 506
Research works printed but not linked: 10
- 2010, NACAA's Critique of Estimated Job Losses from Boiler MACT Only Highlights the Need for Commerce to Release Its Own Analysis, Press release: December 8
- 2013, Effects of Metro Growth Shocks on Labor Earnings, Wages, Unemployment, and Other Labor Market Variables: Average Effects, and Effects in High vs. Low Unemployment Areas
- 2005, Effective Marginal Tax Rates on Labor Income, Congressional Budget Office
- 2009, Estimates of Job Creation from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of, CEA report
- 1997, Economic Analysis for the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Category: Pulp and Paper Production; Effluent Limitations Guidelines, Pretreatment Standards, and New Source Performance Standards: Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Category-Phase 1
- 2011, Handbook on the Benefits, Costs and Impacts of Land Cleanup and Reuse
- 2011, The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020. Final Report
- Michael Greenstone, 2012, August Jobs Report: The Private Sector Continues to Grow, The Hamilton Project
- 2012, The Regulatory Red Herring: The Role of Job Impact Analyses in Environmental Policy Debates
- Tennessee Valley, 2010, Kingston Ash Recovery Project-Non-Time-Critical Removal Action-Embayment/Dredge Cell Action Memorandum
Cited by
The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Competitiveness
Dechezleprêtre, A., & Sato, M. (2017) · Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · doi:10.1093/reep/rex013 · Cited by 995
Martin, R., Muûls, M., de Preux, L. B., & Wagner, U. J. (2014) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/aer.104.8.2482 · Cited by 333
Dechezleprêtre, A., Nachtigall, D., & Stadler, B. (2020) · OECD Economics Department working papers · doi:10.1787/899eb13f-en · Cited by 36
The Social Value of Job Loss and Its Effect on the Costs of U.S. Environmental Regulations
Bartik, T. J. (2015) · Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · doi:10.1093/reep/rev002 · Cited by 31
Self-citationHow Effects of Local Labor Demand Shocks Vary with Local Labor Market Conditions
Bartik, T. J. (2014) · Upjohn Research (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) · doi:10.17848/wp14-202 · Cited by 19
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Bartik, T.
- Affiliations
- W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bartik, Timothy
- ORCID
- Bartik, Timothy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013
- OpenAlex
- W93419219
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3
- Type
- report
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- Econstor (Econstor) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Upjohn Research (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Keywords
- environmental regulation, job loss, social costs, regulatory cost-benefit analysis, earnings, labor market adjustment, older workers, high-wage jobs, unemployment, leisure values, wage cuts
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Social Costs of Jobs Lost Due to Environmental Regulations. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2139/ssrn.2241065
- The paper
- Bartik, T. (2013). Social Costs of Jobs Lost Due to Environmental Regulations. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2241065
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
