Does regulation kill jobs? / edited by Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and Chris Carrigan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coglianese, Cary.

Finkel, Adam M.

Carrigan, Chris (Christopher)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade regulation--United States.

Trade regulation.

Trade regulation--Economic aspects--United States.

Industrial laws and legislation--Economic aspects--United States.

Industrial laws and legislation.

Unemployment--United States.

Unemployment.

United States--Economic conditions--2009-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As millions of Americans struggle to find work in the wake of the Great Recession, politicians from both parties look to regulation in search of an economic cure. Some claim that burdensome regulations undermine private sector competitiveness and job growth, while others argue that tough new regulations actually create jobs at the same time that they provide other benefits. Does Regulation Kill Jobs? reveals the complex reality of regulation that supports neither partisan view. Leading legal scholars, economists, political scientists, and policy analysts show that individual regulations can at times induce employment shifts across firms, sectors, and regions—but regulation overall is neither a prime job killer nor a key job creator. The challenge for policymakers is to look carefully at individual regulatory proposals to discern any job shifting they may cause and then to make regulatory decisions sensitive to anticipated employment effects. Drawing on their analyses, contributors recommend methods for obtaining better estimates of job impacts when evaluating regulatory costs and benefits. They also assess possible ways of reforming regulatory institutions and processes to take better account of employment effects in policy decision-making. Does Regulation Kills Jobs? tackles what has become a heated partisan issue with exactly the kind of careful analysis policymakers need in order to make better policy decisions, providing insights that will benefit both politicians and citizens who seek economic growth as well as the protection of public health and safety, financial security, environmental sustainability, and other civic goals. Contributors: Matthew D. Adler, Joseph E. Aldy, Christopher Carrigan, Cary Coglianese, E. Donald Elliott, Rolf Färe, Ann Ferris, Adam M. Finkel, Wayne B. Gray, Shawna Grosskopf, Michael A. Livermore, Brian F. Mannix, Jonathan S. Masur, Al McGartland, Richard Morgenstern, Carl A. Pasurka, Jr., William A. Pizer, Eric A. Posner, Lisa A. Robinson, Jason A. Schwartz, Ronald J. Shadbegian, Stuart Shapiro.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. The Jobs and Regulation Debate

2. Analyzing the Employment Impacts of Regulation

3. Do the Job Effects of Regulation Differ with the Competitive Environment?

4. The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power- Sector Regulations`

5. Environmental Regulatory Rigidity and Employment in the Electric Power Sector

6. Toward Best Practices: Assessing the Effects of Regulation on Employment

7. Emitting More Light than Heat: Lessons from Risk Assessment Controversies for the “Job- Killing Regulations” Debate

8. Happiness, Health, and Leisure: Valuing the Nonconsumption Impacts of Unemployment

9. A Research Agenda for Improving the Treatment of Employment Impacts in Regulatory Impact Analysis

10. Employment and Human Welfare: Why Does Benefit– Cost Analysis Seem Blind to Job Impacts?

11. Unemployment and Regulatory Policy

12. Reforming the Regulatory Process to Consider Employment and Other Macroeconomic Factors

13. Analysis to Inform Public Discourse on Jobs and Regulation

14 Rationing Analysis of Job Losses and Gains: An Exercise in Domestic Comparative Law

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812223453

0812223454

9780812209242

0812209249

OCLC:

870699251