Essays on Environmental and Labor Economics
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description: This dissertation is the collection of three papers on environmental and labor economics. The First chapter is on environmental economics. The main objective of this chapter is to explore the effect of local community pressure on the corporate environmental management effort expended by factories regulated under the Clean Water Act. Many factors influence corporate environmental management, which I interpret to include the full spectrum of pollution control techniques from reactive end-of-pipe treatment techniques to proactive pollution prevention protocols. The analysis of this chapter empirically exploits to two survey-based measures of local community pressure. One captures the perceived need to respond to local concerns over the natural environment. The other measure captures the economic importance of the polluting facility in the local community. These two measures capture countervailing forces. While the first reflects greater local environmental pressure, the second reflects less local environmental pressure. Our results reveal that local community pressure positively influences corporate environmental management in general; however, in certain cases, the two local dimensions reveal distinctions between a community’s desire for environmental protection and economic activity. The second chapter is also on environmental economics, which serves as an extension to the first chapter. Here, I explore the effect of spatially defined local community characteristics on the wastewater management environmental choice by constricting rings of community characteristics within 1,5,10 and 15 miles of the regulated facility location. The study includes not only economic characteristics of the community, but also socioeconomic, demographic and political community characteristic that serve as proxies of local community pressure. In addition, to empirically answer the question whether local communities promote water pollution control, this study assesses whether the communitie…
abstract: This dissertation is the collection of three papers on environmental and labor economics. The First chapter is on environmental economics. The main objective of this chapter is to explore the effect of local community pressure on the corporate environmental management effort expended by factories regulated under the Clean Water Act. Many factors influence corporate environmental management, which I interpret to include the full spectrum of pollution control techniques from reactive end-of-pipe treatment techniques to proactive pollution prevention protocols. The analysis of this chapter empirically exploits to two survey-based measures of local community pressure. One captures the perceived need to respond to local concerns over the natural environment. The other measure captures the economic importance of the polluting facility in the local community. These two measures capture countervailing forces. While the first reflects greater local environmental pressure, the second reflects less local environmental pressure. Our results reveal that local community pressure positively influences corporate environmental management in general; however, in certain cases, the two local dimensions reveal distinctions between a community’s desire for environmental protection and economic activity. The second chapter is also on environmental economics, which serves as an extension to the first chapter. Here, I explore the effect of spatially defined local community characteristics on the wastewater management environmental choice by constricting rings of community characteristics within 1,5,10 and 15 miles of the regulated facility location. The study includes not only economic characteristics of the community, but also socioeconomic, demographic and political community characteristic that serve as proxies of local community pressure. In addition, to empirically answer the question whether local communities promote water pollution control, this study assesses whether the communitie…
author: Yaseen, Asmaa
language: en
keywords: Environmental economics, Labor economics, Environmental management, Female Labor force, Labor Market, Local community pressure, Terrorism, wastewater
date published: 2018-08-31
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:46:52Z
provider: University of Kansas
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Kansas

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