Environmental tax reform and income distribution with imperfect heterogeneous labour markets

Aubert, Diane; Chiroleu‐Assouline, Mireille

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.03.006

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“… 1 The conditions of the existence of a double dividend from the implementation of a carbon tax has been widely discussed in the literature (e.g. Aubert and Chiroleau-Assouline 2019 ; Hasfstead and Williams 2018 ). …”

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Assessing Short-Term and Long-Term Economic and Environmental Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis in France

Malliet¹,

Reynès

Landa³

et al. 2020

Environ Resource Econ

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In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, the French government has imposed drastic lockdown measures for a period of 55 days. This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic and environmental impacts of these measures in the short and long term. We use a Computable General Equilibrium model designed to assess environmental and energy policies impacts at the macroeconomic and sectoral levels. We find that the lockdown has led to a significant decrease in economic output of 5% of GDP, but a positive environmental impact with a 6.6% reduction in CO 2 emissions in 2020. Both decreases are temporary: economic and environmental indicators return to their baseline trajectory after a few years. CO 2 emissions even end up significantly higher after the COVID-19 crisis when we account for persistently low oil prices. We then investigate whether implementing carbon pricing can still yield positive macroeconomic dividends in the post-COVID recovery. We find that implementing ambitious carbon pricing speeds up economic recovery while significantly reducing CO 2 emissions. By maintaining high fossil fuel prices, carbon taxation reduces the imports of fossil energy and stimulates energy efficiency investments while the full redistribution of tax proceeds does not hamper the recovery.

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Assessing Short-Term and Long-Term Economic and Environmental Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis in France

Malliet¹,

Reynès

Landa³

et al. 2020

Environ Resource Econ

132

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“…In some countries (France, UK, Belgium), it depends on the method of disposal, e.g. for landfill disposals, the maximum rate is EUR 150 per ton and, depending on the environmental burden, the figure comes down to EUR 20 per ton [13]. The tax revenues are mostly transferred to the national budget and then redistributed between environmental agencies and used to improve the ecological situation.…”

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Industrial Waste Disposal: Development of New Technologies and Economic Mechanisms of Management

Bamatov¹,

Alekseev²,

Silaeva³

et al. 2019

IJRTE

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 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the methods and instruments of funding and taxation in the waste disposal sector in countries with different levels of economic development, budget decentralisation, population density and cultural traditions. The paper covers the issues of industrial waste disposal and international practice in addressing this problem. The condition, problems and ways of waste disposal are discussed, with a focus on the role of the state and tax mechanisms in different countries. Based on an expert survey, an optimum strategy is proposed to bring down waste in industrial production by implementing new technology. The strategy is designed to prevent and minimise waste generation, to reuse and recycle waste, recover or dispose of waste materials, treat and destruct waste.

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“…Chen, Oliva and Zhang (2017) show that well‐educated citizens tend to migrate into cleaner areas. Aubert and Chiroleu‐Assouline (2019) and Hafstead and Williams III (2019) find that low‐skilled workers are more affected by environmental regulations. Both of these disproportional responses tend to increase average wage rates in the regulated areas.…”

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Environmental Regulations, Political Incentives and Local Economic Activities: Evidence from China*

2020

Oxf Bull Econ Stat

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How do nationwide environmental regulations produce heterogeneous effects on the economic activities of manufacturing firms located in places with differently incentivized city leaders? This paper answers this question by drawing on a set of firm‐based pollution regulations in China from 2007 to investigate the relationship between political incentives and the effects of environmental regulations. I show that when a city's Party secretary has more incentives to be promoted, the adverse impacts on production by regulated firms tend to increase, but these losses for regulated firms are compensated by gains for other unregulated firms in polluting industries. Therefore, no overall reduction is seen in the manufacturing activities of the polluting industries. The findings suggest that if multitask problems for local governments are properly addressed, environmental regulations can effectively reduce the pollution and avoid large unintended costs to economic growth.

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Environmental tax reform and income distribution with imperfect heterogeneous labour markets

Cited by 75 publications

References 61 publications

Assessing Short-Term and Long-Term Economic and Environmental Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis in France

Assessing Short-Term and Long-Term Economic and Environmental Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis in France

Industrial Waste Disposal: Development of New Technologies and Economic Mechanisms of Management

Environmental Regulations, Political Incentives and Local Economic Activities: Evidence from China*

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