Abstract
Whether environmental governance will cause unemployment has always been an aspect that the government needs to pay attention to in the process of making environmental policies, and is also a concern of residents. This paper analyzes the policy effect of environmental courts, which is a very important policy tool for the legalization of China’s environmental governance. While investigating whether environmental courts can effectively improve environmental quality, we also analyze its possible impact on employment and the specific mechanisms. The results show that: (1) After the establishment of environmental courts, the PM2.5 concentration has been significantly reduced. (2) While improving the environmental quality, environmental courts will produce a weak employment promotion effect. (3) Environmental courts affect the amount of employment through cost effect, factor substitution effect and innovation effect. This study provides empirical evidence for China and other developing countries to promote the legalization of environmental governance.
Highlights
Environmental Courts, EnvironmentEnvironmental problems will seriously affect the health and wellbeing of residents [1,2], restricting the high-quality development of China’s economy
From column (6), it can be seen that the environmental courts have significantly reduced the PM2.5 concentration, that is, the environmental courts are conducive to the improvement of urban environmental quality
This paper uses DID method to evaluate the impact of environmental courts on environmental improvement and employment in China
Summary
Environmental problems will seriously affect the health and wellbeing of residents [1,2], restricting the high-quality development of China’s economy. As a nonexclusive and non-competitive public good, there is obvious market failure in environmental protection. In order to strengthen pollution governance, the government has implemented a lot of command and control environmental regulation policies, such as environmental administrative punishment, which has played an important role in pollution control [3]. Market oriented environmental regulation policies represented by emissions trading are gradually playing a role [4]. China’s environmental problems have not been fundamentally solved. Some administrative command-style governance only caused the effect of temporary environmental improvement [5], such as the“two sessions blue” phenomenon
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