Morgenstern et al. (2002) is well-known for its investigation of the employment effects of environmental regulations. However, the cost function specified in that paper is handicapped by its reliance on survey data of the costs of inputs assigned to pollution abatement. In this paper, we specify an input distance function that models the joint production of good and bad outputs. This allows us to measure the relative importance of factors associated with changes in employment without pollution abatement cost data. We operationalize our model using a sample of 80 coal-fired electric power plants from 1995-2005.

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减少污染和就业。

Morgenstern等。（2002年）以对环境法规的就业影响的调查而闻名。但是，该文件中指定的成本函数由于依赖于分配给污染减排的投入成本的调查数据而受到限制。在本文中，我们指定了一个输入距离函数，该函数可以模拟好产出和差产出的联合生产。这使我们能够在没有消除污染成本数据的情况下测量与就业变化相关的因素的相对重要性。我们使用1995-2005年间80家燃煤电厂的样本对模型进行了操作。