Green jobs and renewable electricity policies: Employment impacts of Ontario's feed-in tariff

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Böhringer, Christoph ^a   Rivers, Nicholas J ^b   Rutherford, Thomas F ^c   Wigle, Randall ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Employment; Policy; Renewable energy; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887828621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1935-1682.3217     Document Type: Article

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