Abstract
This research aims to explore the interaction between environmental performance and employment China’s manufacturing industries. Based on the environmental performance of 32 industries in China’s manufacturing industry during 2006–2015, a panel vector autoregressive model was constructed to study the interaction between industry output and employment in clean industries and dirty industries. The dynamic impact and internal transmission mechanism between environmental performance is analyzed. The study found that in the early stage, due to the reduction of production scale, there was a weak and short-term negative correlation effect on employment, and the mutual promotion relationship between economic benefits and employment was unsustainable. In return, employment affects environmental performance, but the effect differs due to the different forms of environmental performance. For dirty industries, the impact of environmental performance on employment through technical effects is more significant and, thus, a win–win situation of ecological environment and employment stability will be achieved. This research has practical significance regarding how to scientifically and effectively carry out environmental regulation and green management.
Highlights
Achieving sustainable growth and improving people’s livelihood have always been the two major concerns of the Chinese government
Taking the interaction between environmental performance and employment in China’s manufacturing industry as the starting point of research, based on the industry’s perspective, we aim to explore how to conduct environmental management scientifically and effectively, and propose policy opinions and suggestions according to the differences of the industry
Through the combination of quantitative and qualitative research, we explore the dynamic impact response process of the environmental performance of the clean industries and the dirty industries on employment, and deepen understanding of the interaction between the two
Summary
Achieving sustainable growth and improving people’s livelihood have always been the two major concerns of the Chinese government. The current mode of economic development in China is typified by high growth, energy consumption, and pollution characteristics, and this has caused great stress on both energy consumption and the environment [1]. The manufacturing industry is at the industrial center and at the core of maintaining stable economic development. Development of the manufacturing industry inevitably brings about deterioration of the environment. The country’s industrial structure and employment situation are affected. Since the 1990s, China’s employment elasticity has remained at a low level, and the employment situation has become increasingly severe. In 2013, the pollution level of almost all industries of recent decades reached their peak, and this aroused the government’s
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