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Yuan Liu1, Sunjoo Park2, Hongtao Yi3
1Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University, 805 21(st) St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
Abstract:
Recycling solid waste not only produces environmental and health benefits, but also generates economic benefit. This paper empirically evaluates the employment impact of Florida county recycling programs from 2000 through 2011, applying a fixed effects regression model. The results indicate that a one percentage point increase of county recycling rate leads to a 0.4% job growth in overall solid waste and recycling industry. However, the impact of recycling programs on green jobs are not uniform across the recycling subsectors: the effect is concentrated in the recycling processing sector while the solid waste collection sector and scrap materials businesses are unlikely to be influenced by county's recycling performance.
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