Are Jobs and the Quality of the Environment Mutually Exclusive?

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 781-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Izraeli ◽  
L Mobley
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
General Public ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Trade Off

In this paper it is shown that there is no support in economic theory for the suggested trade-off between jobs and the environment. Moreover, improved environmental quality may accelerate economic growth via improved health and productivity of workers, lower maintenance costs, and enhanced productivity of capital inputs. Also, empirical evidence is presented on the preference of the general public regarding environmental quality. The empirical evidence indicates that people are ready to trade part of their income for improved environmental quality.

SOLOW'S RETURN: INVENTIONS, IDEAS AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE

2012 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 1250009
Author(s):  
CHARLES KENNY
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Growth Process ◽  
Diffusion Of Technology ◽  
Income Divergence ◽  
Role Concerns ◽  
Global Growth

Robert Solow's model of "exogenous" economic growth driven by the global diffusion of technology is out of fashion because it is contradicted by empirical evidence of income divergence. Today, economic growth is considered "endogenous" and institutions are seen as central to the long-term growth process. At the same time, non-income measures of quality of life do see strong patterns of global growth and convergence. This suggests that institutions may be less important to achieve progress in broader quality of life while a larger and important role concerns the factors that drive exogenous change, including the flow of technology and ideas.

The Research on Temporal and Spatial Econometric Analysis of Environmental Quality and Economic Growth

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 4398-4401
Author(s):  
Xian Hong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Impulse Response Function ◽  
Spatial Econometric ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Lag Effect ◽  
Depth Analysis

The traditional economic growth rapid growth of the gross national product, but also the natural resources are depleted, increasing environmental pollution, and the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality has caused a lot of controversy. Intuitive description of both the timing of changes in the law, in turn based on in-depth analysis of the dynamic pollution and income associated VAR model, found that there are long-run equilibrium and unilateral Granger causality, and then using the impulse response function analysis and analysis of variance, found that economic growth greater impact on the quality of the environment and the current quality of the environment is very small role in boosting economic growth, and this effect lag effect. Panel Data model to further explore the factors that affect the model, this paper found that the population density, the proportion of secondary industry and environmental governance investment on the quality of the environment has a significant impact, the majority of the pollution indicators are in line with the EKC inverted U-curve hypothesis, and a turning point in the inverted U-curve is also to make the calculation.

Environmental quality: impact of economic growth

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 673-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Bansal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Quality Attribute ◽  
Product Model ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Regulatory Measure

AbstractUsing a vertically differentiated product model, the paper aims to investigate the effects of economic growth on market provision of product quality. The quality attribute considered is the environmental friendliness of products. Economic growth is modeled as a shift in income distribution. It shows that the effect of economic growth depends on the form it takes. A growth in income that is uniform across consumers improves the cleanup levels adopted by both firms. However, a growth in income that is accompanied by changes in income inequality may result in the lowering of one of the two qualities. More specifically, if the growth in income is accompanied by increased disparities in income distribution, the quality of the (environmentally) inferior variant is reduced. This has serious implications for the poor consumers if the product has safety or health hazards. The paper suggests a regulatory measure to prevent such deterioration in the quality of the inferior variant.

scholarly journals Can FDI and ODI two-way flows improve the quality of economic growth? Empirical Evidence from China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Sumei Luo ◽  
Yixiang Shi ◽  
Yongkun Sun ◽  
Zhiqi Zhao ◽  
Guangyou Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Empirical Evidence

scholarly journals Effect of Energy Consumption and Economic Growth towards the environmental quality of Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 10007
Author(s):  
Shanty Oktavilia ◽  
FX. Sugiyanto ◽  
Firmansyah ◽  
Amin Pujiati ◽  
Andryan Setyadharma
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Environment Quality ◽  
The Impact

Economic development as a process of improving people's welfare in a country can also lead the declining of the environment quality. The degradation of the environment can be caused by the energy consumption required in the development process, as well as pollution. The main purpose of this study is to analyze empirically the impact of energy consumption and economic growth toward environmental quality which is measured by environmental quality index. This study employs the econometric model of panel data of 34 provinces in Indonesia along 2011-2016. The study finds the long-term relationship between energy consumption and economic growth on environmental quality in Indonesia.

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