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The relationship between environmental regulation and labor force employment

Yuefan Guo
Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 15-27, 2024 DOI: 10.54691/j5d07c13 January 23, 2024
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Abstract.Lucid waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains, and employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. Protecting the environment and promoting the employment are the important subjects of China's economic and social development. Based on the theoretical and empirical evidence, this paper finds through the provincial panel data from 2010 to 2019 that environmental regulation generally promotes employment by affecting GDP, but environmental regulation in northeast China has a negative effect on employment. Therefore, China should find the balance between the intensity of environmental regulation and economic growth, so as to protect the environment and improve people's livelihood.
Keywords. Labor force employment; economic growth; environmental regulation.
APA Citation Yuefan Guo (2024). The relationship between environmental regulation and labor force employment. Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.54691/j5d07c13

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