Environmental Regulation and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  The American Economic Review

• Publication date

  2011-05-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1257/AER.101.3.442
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