“…Alternative studies have claimed that the employment benefit of green technologies has been overestimated, arguing that environmental policies, as initiatives aimed at providing incentives in environmental innovation, may have much less attractive labor market consequences (e.g. Michaels and Murphy, 2009;Morriss et al, 2009;Hughes, 2011). Becker and Shadbegian (2008) examine the environmental product manufactures using a 1995 survey data for the United States, finding that they did not perform differently in terms of wage, employment, output, and exports than non-environmental product plants.…”