应战略与组织管理研究所所长张国兴教授邀请，暨南大学经济学院 张宁教授将来我院举办讲座。欢迎感兴趣的师生参加！

主题：Environmental regulation and workers’benefits: Evidence from city-level air quality standard in China

主讲人：张宁  教授

主持人：张国兴 教授

讲座时间：10月12日（星期一）15:00-17:30

讲座地点：腾讯会议（会议 ID：176 972 083）

会议直播地址:https://meeting.tencent.com/l/2Gu6pZxZV5Pd

讲座简介：

This paper identifies the effect of environmental regulation on workers’ earnings based on China’s city-level air quality standard program as a quasi-experiment. This program provides variations in regulatory intensity across years and cities for polluting firms, we use a Difference-in-Differences (DD) approach to exploit this variation, to compare the earnings in polluting firms in the program, before and after the introduction of this program, with that in polluting firms out of this program. We match two firm-level dataset that including rich information on firm’s economic indicators, emissions and abatement equipment. We find that, the program did not significantly decrease firm’s employment, but caused 3% earning losses, this amounts to 6631 million Yuan (871.99 million US $) in forgone earnings. The estimate is less than that of US studies for both command-and-control and market-based regulations. In addition, firms tend to cut more the workers’ bonuses than their regular wage, and the firms pay more unemployment insurance after the program. For the channel test, the program increase firm’s pollution abatement equipment by 5.9%, and treatment capacity by 6.3%, and significantly add firm’s production cost. We also find different types of firm response to the regulation differently. The high-polluting firms, smaller firms, labor-intensive firms, low technology-level firms, non-SOE firms, non-exporting firms and firms without labor union cut more worker’s earnings than their counterparts. A cost-benefit analysis suggested that the health benefits are likely to outweigh the earning cost.

主讲人简介：

张宁，暨南大学经济学院教授、博士生导师，国家优秀青年基金获得者，珠江学者，国家重点研发课题负责人，主持国家自科基金4项。主要研究方向为：资源环境经济、可持续发展评估等。现担任SSCI期刊《Social Science Journal》副主编；ABS三星级SSCI期刊《Technological Forecasting and Social Change》期刊编委，以第一或通讯作者在《经济研究》、Science，Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience，Cell子刊One Earth, Ecological Economics, Energy Economics、Resource and Energy Economics等国内外期刊发表论文80余篇，20篇论文进入ESI热点和高被引论文，获得霍英东青年教师奖等奖励。