{"title":"Impact of Climate Policy on Labor Earnings: Evidence From Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy in China","authors":"Han Li, Qian Lu","doi":"10.1111/jors.12762","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>This paper use China's Low-Carbon City Pilot program as a quasi-natural experiment, combining city-level data with the China Labor Dynamics Survey (CLDS) data to empirically examine the impact of climate policies on labor earnings in the aggregate labor market. Our findings reveal that climate policies have a significant positive impact on earnings in the overall labor market without adversely affecting employment. However, climate policy has substantial distributional effects, favoring skilled workers in green industries but disadvantaging low-skilled labor. This distributional effect primarily stems from the industrial restructuring and technological upgrading in cities induced by climate policies through administrative regulations and economic incentives. Furthermore, our research indicates that the effects of climate policies on the labor market extend to the household level, raising certain social distributional concerns.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"65 3","pages":"741-758"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Regional Science","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jors.12762","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper use China's Low-Carbon City Pilot program as a quasi-natural experiment, combining city-level data with the China Labor Dynamics Survey (CLDS) data to empirically examine the impact of climate policies on labor earnings in the aggregate labor market. Our findings reveal that climate policies have a significant positive impact on earnings in the overall labor market without adversely affecting employment. However, climate policy has substantial distributional effects, favoring skilled workers in green industries but disadvantaging low-skilled labor. This distributional effect primarily stems from the industrial restructuring and technological upgrading in cities induced by climate policies through administrative regulations and economic incentives. Furthermore, our research indicates that the effects of climate policies on the labor market extend to the household level, raising certain social distributional concerns.
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The Journal of Regional Science (JRS) publishes original analytical research at the intersection of economics and quantitative geography. Since 1958, the JRS has published leading contributions to urban and regional thought including rigorous methodological contributions and seminal theoretical pieces. The JRS is one of the most highly cited journals in urban and regional research, planning, geography, and the environment. The JRS publishes work that advances our understanding of the geographic dimensions of urban and regional economies, human settlements, and policies related to cities and regions.
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