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Cary Coglianese is Edward B. Shils Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, and editor of Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation and coeditor of Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Adam M. Finkel is Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, and coeditor of Import Safety. Christopher Carrigan Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. Visit Does Regulation Kill Jobs? at the Penn Program on Regulation web site for contributor information and other details.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Jobs and Regulation Debate
—Cary Coglianese and Christopher Carrigan
EVIDENCE
Chapter 2. Analyzing the Employment Impacts of Regulation
—Richard D. Morgenstern
Chapter 3. Do the Job Effects of Regulation Differ with the Competitive Environment?
—Wayne B. Gray and Ronald J. Shadbegian
Chapter 4. The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations
—Joseph E. Aldy and William A. Pizer
Chapter 5. Environmental Regulatory Rigidity and Employment in the Electric Power Sector
—Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka, Jr., and Ronald J. Shadbegian
ANALYTICS
Chapter 6. Toward Best Practices: Assessing the Effects of Regulation on Employment
—Lisa A. Robinson
Chapter 7. Emitting More Light than Heat: Lessons from Risk Assessment Controversies for the "Job-Killing Regulations" Debate
—Adam M. Finkel
Chapter 8. Happiness, Health, and Leisure: Valuing the Nonconsumption Impacts of Unemployment
—Matthew D. Adler
Chapter 9. A Research Agenda for Improving the Treatment of Employment Impacts in Regulatory Impact Analysis
—Ann Ferris and Al McGartland
Chapter 10. Employment and Human Welfare: Why Does Benefit-Cost Analysis Seem Blind to Job Impacts?
—Brian F. Mannix
REFORM
Chapter 11. Unemployment and Regulatory Policy
—Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner
Chapter 12. Reforming the Regulatory Process to Consider Employment and Other Macroeconomic Factors
—Stuart Shapiro
Chapter 13. Analysis to Inform Public Discourse on Jobs and Regulation
Michael A. Livermore and Jason A. Schwartz
Chapter 14. Rationing Analysis of Job Losses and Gains: An Exercise in Domestic Comparative Law
—E. Donald Elliott
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Edited by Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and Christopher Carrigan
Summary
Does Regulation Kill Jobs? analyzes the effects of regulation on employment and offers suggestions for improved economic analysis and regulatory decision making.
