环境管理体系认证如何影响企业绿色就业需求?OACHSSCD

With the continuous deepening of the green and low-carbon transformation,green technological innovation and industrial structure optimization are driving the adjustment of the labor market.However,from the trajectory of green skills growth,green human resources are insufficient to support the realization of China's climate goals.In this context,how to enhance the green employment demands of enterprises and reverse the high-carbon development model becomes a key issue for accelerating the cultivation of new quality productive forces and better implementing the employment priority strategy. This paper constructs a green employment demand index by integrating data from the American Occupational Information Network(O*NET),the Occupational Classification System of the People's Republic of China,and online recruitment websites.Based on data from A-share listed companies in China from 2016 to 2023,it analyzes the impact of environmental management system certification on the green employment demands. The findings show that environmental management system certification promotes the green employment demands of enterprises.This conclusion remains valid after addressing endogeneity issues and performing a series of robustness checks.Mechanism analysis indicates that the promoting effect operates by strengthening green technological innovation,improving environmental investment behaviors,and curbing managers'short-sightedness.Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the promoting effect is more pronounced among environmentally sensitive enterprises,enterprises in regions with lower environmental regulations,and those in labor-intensive industries.These conclusions offer new insights into boosting demand for green employment,alleviating structural employment contradictions,and promoting high-quality employment during the green and low-carbon transition. The marginal contributions of this paper are as follows.First,it enriches the measurement methods for green employment demand indicators.Second,it expands the literature on the economic consequences of environmental management system certification.Third,it provides a valuable reference for the coordinated advancement of green and low-carbon transition and high-quality and full employment. Based on the above analysis,this paper proposes the following policy recommendations.First,enterprises should establish standardized environmental management processes and clearly define the responsibilities of each department in environmental protection,thereby ensuring the effective implementation and continuous operation of the environmental management system.Second,based on enterprises'own characteristics and the complexity of their operating environments,the government should implement differentiated green transformation guidance policies and set reasonable phased transformation goals.Finally,in promoting green and low-carbon transformation,the demand for the quantity and structure of green-skilled workers in the labor market should be fully considered to alleviate the imbalance between supply and demand for green-skilled talent.