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Social Costs of Jobs Lost Due to Environmental Regulations

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Bartik, Timothy·2013
DOI 10.2139/ssrn.2241065
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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.

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Authors
Bartik, T.
Affiliations
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (US)
Corresponding author
Bartik, Timothy
ORCID
Bartik, Timothy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013
DOI
10.2139/ssrn.2241065
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
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

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