This paper examines the relationship among economic context, political institutions, and the political dynamics of adjustment within national models of capitalism through an analysis of recent labor-market reform in France and Germany. It argues that a climate of economic austerity since the...

This paper uses three different sources of data to investigate the association between the business cycle--measured with unemployment rates--and environmental concern. Building on recent research that finds internet search terms to be useful predictors of health epidemics and economic activity,...

This is an improved version of the SSRN Working Paper untitled "Environment, Health and Labor Market" which can be found here: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=2994662" https://ssrn.com/abstract=2994662.The paper re-examines the impact that an environmental tax has on people's health and on economic...

We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...

An updated version can be found here: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3698071" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3698071.We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining...