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In the context of low-carbon economic transformation, achieving a win-win situation for corporate green governance and employment is currently a challenge for China's development. While existing literature predominantly addresses the influencing factors on employment and the economic and environmental benefits of adopting green governance, limited attention is given to its social benefits, particularly its impact on employment. This paper addresses this gap by analyzing the influence of green governance on employment through the lenses of social identity theory and cost theory. Further, the paper builds a two-sector model including the polluting and non-polluting industry to verify the technical progress mechanism between green governance and employment. The model analysis suggests that, technical progress is an important channel connecting green governance and employment, and the technical progress mechanism varies between the heavy pollution industry and non-heavy pollution industry. Empirically, utilizing firm-year financial and environmental data sourced from CSMAR and WIND databases, this study constructs a corporate green governance index employing the Janis-Fadner coefficient method. Total factor productivity is employed to gauge technical progress, with the DEA-Malmquist approach facilitating the decomposition of technical progress into technical and efficiency changes. Through OLS regression, the impact of green governance on employment is examined, with the mediating effect of technical progress tested. Empirical findings indicate a significantly positive relationship between corporate green governance and employment, with technical progress mediating this association.The conclusion is still valid after the robust test by considering the endogeneity of the model and replacing key variables. We also find a divergence between the mechanism of green governance impacting employment for the heavy pollution industry and non-heavy pollution industry. Specifically, technical change shows a suppression effect in all sectors, while efficiency change has a positive mediating effect in the non-heavy pollution industry. This study contributes to the literature on the following three aspects. Firstly, the study extends existing concerns of economic and environmental to social benefits of corporate green governance. Secondly, the study provides a theoretical explanation for the underlying mechanism of technical progress. Thirdly, the study examines the heterogeneous effects of green governance on employment between the heavy pollution industry and non-heavy pollution industry. In conclusion, this paper sheds light on how corporate green governance promotes employment and its mechanism, and provides valuable implications for enterprises and policymakers to implement green governance and promote high-quality development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper clarifies the community-based farm corporation's employment strategy, channels and job selection of employment structure of agricultural workers in Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture. It additionally examines the profile of such corporations in view of this employment structure. In settlement A, Tajimi City, many farmers retired early, and a community-based farm corporation (company B) was established to maintain the farmland. The agricultural products planted by B are divided into two types according to the purpose of production. The first type consists of rice and blueberries, planted to maintain all farmland in settlement A. Strawberries and micro leaves are the second type, and B continues to obtain high profits from these agricultural products. Key workers in the production of the first type are women living in Tajimi City, who engage in unskilled labor (1). For the second type, full-time employees with agricultural skills are hired (2). The relationships that have matched them with company B differs between (1) and (2). While (1) were matched through introductions from women living in A, the emphasis for (2) is on their formal relationship with the Gifu prefectural agricultural college. In addition, the wage levels also differ between the two categories. For (1), this is set at the minimum wage of the Gifu Prefecture, while for (2), it is the same level as that offered by non-farming companies in Tajimi City. By raising the wage level for (2), B aims to recruit better worker and, it can be said that B has a peasant profile as its purpose is to maintain the farmland, while at the same time incorporating an entrepreneurial profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing on “ professional, employment, entrepreneurship”, from the aspects of curriculum system, practical teaching system, government and school enterprise cooperation and education mechanism, teaching staff, employment and entrepreneurship service system, this paper systematically summarizes the new farmers’ “ professional, employment and entrepreneurship integration” training mode, in order to provide reference for vocational colleges’ rural revitalization personnel training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]