Event Information
The next Environmental Economics Unit Seminar will be held on now on Monday February 19 , 12:10 – 13:15, in B44 and we invite all who might be interested to join us.
The seminar will be given by Hanna Lindström and she will present on the subject: The Effect of Environmental Protection Expenditure on Industrial Employment in Sweden
Hanna is an Assistant Professor at the department of Economics at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics. Her main research fields are environmental policy evaluation, design and implementation, public procurement, consumer preferences and producer behavior. She will be accompanied by her colleague and co-author Mattias Vesterberg, who is an Associate Professor at the same department. His research mainly concerns energy and labor economics.
You will have the opportunity to book meetings (on both Monday and Tuesday), lunch and dinner with Hanna and Mattias. To do so, please wright your name and email address on your preferred time slot in this document.
When: Monday, February 19 at 12:10 - 13:15
Where: B44
Speaker: Hanna Lindström
Title: The Effect of Environmental Protection Expenditure on Industrial Employment in Sweden
Abstract: In this paper, we empirically investigate how environmental protection expenditures aect sector-level employment within manufacturing industries, using detailed firm-level data for Sweden for the years 2002–2021. We use a structural model approach that allows for a decomposition of the net employment eect of environmental protection expenditures into a cost eect, a factor shift eect, and a demand eect. In our empirical framework, we use instrumental variables to account for endogenous environmental spending stemming from, e.g., corporate social responsibility and self-regulation. Our results reveal that the eects of environmental protection expenditures on sector-level employment dier in sign, magnitude and, to a lesser extent, mechanism across sectors. Another important conclusion is that the net employment eects are more often negative for the Swedish sample, compared to estimates using a similar empirical approach on U.S. data.
Hope to see you there,
Viking Lindberg