Impacts of regulation on eco-innovation and job creation

Artikel

New environmental technologies (environmental/eco-innovations) are often regarded as potential job creators—in addition to their positive effects on the environment. Environmental regulation may induce innovations that are accompanied by positive growth and employment effects. Recent empirical analyses show that the introduction of cleaner process innovations, rather than product-based ones, may also lead to higher employment. The rationale is that cleaner technologies lead to cost savings, which helps to improve firms' competitiveness, thereby inducing positive effects on their market shares.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2020 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects ; Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation ; Particular Labor Markets: Other ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
• Subject: environmental innovation ; employment ; regulation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Horbach, Jens
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2020

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.265.v2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/260700
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET