Will tougher environmental policy reduce the employment of industrial enterprises? The heterogeneity analysis based on enterprise level and city level

Gao, Yusen; Hu, Changsheng; Yang, Yue

doi:10.1002/mde.3490

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“…Due to the heterogeneity of firms, the impact of government environmental concerns on corporate green innovation cannot be generalized (Gao et al, 2022). Both the external environment and the firm's own characteristics affect the way the firm responds to the government environmental concerns and thus affect the firm's green innovation performance (Liu et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

Government environmental concerns and corporate green innovation: Evidence from heavy‐polluting enterprises in China

Chen,

Zhu,

Ding

et al. 2023

Bus Strat Env

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The objective of this study is to examine the impact of government environmental concerns on green innovation and whether this has a “leverage effect” or a “crowding‐out effect.” This study employs a two‐way fixed‐effects model to conduct an empirical test using panel data from 2010 to 2020 on Chinese firms listed in heavy‐polluting industries. The results suggest that an increase in government environmental concerns can promote corporate green innovation. However, government environmental concerns primarily stimulate strategic innovation rather than substantive innovation. After a series of robustness and endogeneity tests, the conclusions of this paper still hold. Corporate green innovation induced by government environmental concerns is not the “leverage effect” superimposed on existing innovation activities but the “crowding‐out effect” of other technological innovation. The heterogeneity tests in this paper indicate that the impact is more pronounced for firms with poorer environmental conditions, stronger political connections, and richer executive backgrounds.

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Section: Empirical Results and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Government environmental concerns and corporate green innovation: Evidence from heavy‐polluting enterprises in China

Chen,

Zhu,

Ding

et al. 2023

Bus Strat Env

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“…Previous studies have examined the impact of TCZ from some aspects. Such studies show that TCZ policy can reduce not only environmental pollution but also have a significant impact on industrial activities, enterprise innovation ( 19 , 34 , 59 ), foreign trade ( 33 ) and employment ( 35 ). The TCZ policy specifies emission levels to achieve the environmental targets of air pollution control.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Finally, this paper supplements the literature on the impacts of the TCZ policy in China. Previous studies focus on the policy impacts on industrial activities, enterprise innovation, foreign trade, and employment ( 19 , 33 – 35 ). This paper expands the research mainly by studying the impact of environmental regulation on public health.…”

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Does environmental regulation improve public health? Evidence from China's Two Control Zones policy

Yang

Liu

Yan

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Improving public health is the premise of sustainable human development and an essential condition of economic growth. However, increasing severe environmental pollution poses a threat to public health. Implementing environmental regulation policy has become a meaningful way to control environmental pollution and the basis and guarantee for achieving public health. This paper aims to study the impact of environmental regulation on public health. The Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy is the earliest and stricter environmental regulation in China. Based on the policy experiment of TCZ, this paper analyzes the role of TCZ policy in improving public health using the DID model and data from 112 cities. The study finds that the TCZ policy can significantly improve public health, and this improvement effect was continuous and lagging. The results of benchmark regression show that the implementation of the TCZ policy has reduced the incidence rate of respiratory diseases in TCZ areas by 5.7%. When considering city heterogeneity in terms of economic and geographical conditions, the study further found that the impact of improvement is largest for cities in more heavily non-provincial capital and central and western regions, respectively. In addition, the results of mediating test show that TCZ policy improves public health by reducing environmental pollution. Our research fills the gap in the literature on the micro effects of environmental regulation policy on public health in developing countries. The government should prioritize environmental pollution control through reasonable environmental regulation policies. The government should strengthen environmental information disclosure to remind the public to deal with air pollution. The government and enterprises also should take various environmental protection measures to reduce air pollution emissions.

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“…During resource reallocation, some production capacity is transferred from the industrial and construction sectors to the service sector; thus, industrial upgrading is expected (Gao et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022).…”

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“…Put differently, a simple tightening of environmental regulation can improve the allocative efficiency of resources. During resource reallocation, some production capacity is transferred from the industrial and construction sectors to the service sector; thus, industrial upgrading is expected (Gao et al, 2022; Zhang et al, 2022).…”

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Labor allocation: How environmental regulation promotes industrial structure

2022

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Using the panel data of China from 2007 to 2016, this paper explores the relationship between environmental regulation and industrial structure upgrading. The results show that environmental regulation has a causally positive impact on the upgrading of industrial structure. To explain the positive causal effect of environmental regulation, we adopt the mediation effect method and then confirm that allocated labor rather than technological innovation is a significant channel by which such regulation affects industrial structure upgrading. Ultimately, this paper complements the existing economic literature by justifying that labor allocation is a key mechanism to upgrade industrial structure in China.

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Will tougher environmental policy reduce the employment of industrial enterprises? The heterogeneity analysis based on enterprise level and city level

Cited by 9 publications

References 44 publications

Government environmental concerns and corporate green innovation: Evidence from heavy‐polluting enterprises in China

Government environmental concerns and corporate green innovation: Evidence from heavy‐polluting enterprises in China

Does environmental regulation improve public health? Evidence from China's Two Control Zones policy

Labor allocation: How environmental regulation promotes industrial structure

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