Does Regulation Kill Jobs?

Contents

Contents Preface vii 1 The Jobs and Regulation Debate 1 Cary Coglianese and Christopher Carrigan Evidence 2 Analyzing the Employment Impacts of Regulation 33 Richard D. Morgenstern 3 Do the Job Effects of Regulation Differ with the Competitive Environment? 51 Wayne B. Gray and Ronald J. Shadbegian 4 The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations 70 Joseph E. Aldy and William A. Pizer 5 Environmental Regulatory Rigidity and Employment in the Electric Power Sector 89 Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka, Jr., and Ronald J. Shadbegian Analytics 6 Toward Best Practices: Assessing the Effects of Regulation on Employment 111 Lisa A. Robinson 7 Emitting More Light than Heat: Lessons from Risk Assessment Controversies for the “Job-Killing Regulations” Debate 128 Adam M. Finkel vi Contents 8 Happiness, Health, and Leisure: Valuing the Nonconsumption Impacts of Unemployment 150 Matthew D. Adler 9 A Research Agenda for Improving the Treatment of Employment Impacts in Regulatory Impact Analysis 170 Ann E. Ferris and Al McGartland 10 Employment and Human Welfare: Why Does Benefit–Cost Analysis Seem Blind to Job Impacts? 190 Brian F. Mannix Reform 11 Unemployment and Regulatory Policy 207 Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner 12 Reforming the Regulatory Process to Consider Employment and Other Macroeconomic Factors 223 Stuart Shapiro 13 Analysis to Inform Public Discourse on Jobs and Regulation 239 Michael A. Livermore and Jason A. Schwartz 14 Rationing Analysis of Job Losses and Gains: An Exercise in Domestic Comparative Law 256 E. Donald Elliott Contributors 273 Index 279 Acknowledgments 289 ...