经济与社会研究院SEMINAR第5期

Does Environmental Regulation Affect Labor Demand in China? Evidence from the Textile Printing and Dyeing Industry

报告人：张炳教授

时间：2016年6月7日上午9：30-11：00

地点：暨南大学经济学院楼102室

主办方：暨南大学经济与社会研究院

报告人简介：

张炳，南京大学环境学院博士、教授，南京大学-江苏省环境保护厅环境管理与政策研究中心主任。2003 年7月毕业于南京大学环境科学系环境规划与管理专业，获理学学士学位；2008 年12月毕业于南京大学环境学院，获环境规划与管理专业理学博士学位。2006 年9月—2007年2月赴香港大学城市规划和环境管理中心访问学习，2007年9月—2008年9月作为国家建设高水平大学联合培养博士赴美国Rutgers大学城市规划和公共政策系工作学习。主要从事环境管理与政策分析、环境经济学等教学和研究，2013年获得国家自然科学基金优秀青年科学基金资助。

Abstract: Developed countries, including the United States and Western Europe, have, for the most part, addressed most of their major environmental concerns. On the other hand, developing countries, including China, are just beginning to figure out how to balance economic development with the desire to address numerous severe environmental problems. In this paper, we use two enterprise-level data sets – China’s Environmental Statistics Database (2002-2007) and China's Industrial Enterprise Database (2002-2007) to estimate the impact of a more stringent wastewater discharge standard for all the textile printing and dyeing enterprises in Lake Tai, Jiangsu region on labor demand. We find that enterprises which face this new more stringent standard decreased labor demand by approximately 7%, which is consistent with the current literature. Furthermore, we find that the new standard had heterogeneous impacts on different types of enterprises that the more stringent discharge standard has particularly large negative effects on employment in domestically-owned private enterprises, but little or no impact on public or foreign-owned enterprises.