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The Effect of Environmental Protection Expenditures on Industrial Employment in Sweden

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  • Golnaz Amjadi

    (Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies))

  • Moriah Bostian

    (Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    Lewis and Clark College)

  • Hanna Lindström

    (Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University)

  • Tommy Lundgren

    (Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

  • Mattias Vesterberg

    (Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University)

Abstract

In this paper, we empirically investigate how environmental protection expenditures affect sector-level employment within manufacturing industries, using detailed firm-level data for Sweden for the years 2002–2021. We use a structural model that allows for a decomposition of the total employment effect of environmental protection expenditures within a sector into a cost effect, a factor shift effect, and a demand effect. We add to previous literature by using instrumental variables in our empirical framework, to account for endogenous environmental spending stemming from, e.g., corporate social responsibility and self-regulation. Our results reveal that increased environmental protection expenditures generally have no statistically significant effect on employment among the sectors studied, with the paper and pulp sector being the exception, showing non-negligible negative effects on employment.

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  • Golnaz Amjadi & Moriah Bostian & Hanna Lindström & Tommy Lundgren & Mattias Vesterberg, 2025. "The Effect of Environmental Protection Expenditures on Industrial Employment in Sweden," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 88(4), pages 1071-1110, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:enreec:v:88:y:2025:i:4:d:10.1007_s10640-025-00961-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s10640-025-00961-7
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