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City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2018
This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925517
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Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences
Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2015
Between 1990 and 2008, emissions of the most common air pollutants from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent, even as real U.S. manufacturing output grew substantially. This paper develops a quantitative model to explain how changes in trade, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029138
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Macroeconomic Impacts of Demographic Change in Scotland : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Lisenkova, Katerina - 2007
This paper combines a multi-period economic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling framework with a demographic model to analyse the macroeconomic impact of the projected demographic trends in Scotland. Demographic trends are defined by the existing fertility-mortality rates and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777449
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Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing
Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2022
skill-biased, then carbon pricing may increase the skill premium of earnings and subsequent wage inequality; however, a more … elastic skill supply through better education quality may mitigate adverse economic outcomes, including wage inequality, and … inequality that results from carbon pricing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084050
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Who Pays for Higher Carbon Prices? Illustration for Lithuania and a Research Agenda
Immervoll, Herwig; Linden, Jules; O'Donoghue, Cathal; … - 2023
This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets, and of possible compensatory government transfers that can be financed through carbon-tax revenues. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254928
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Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale
Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2010
As the link between tax compliance and tax morale is found to be robust, finding the determinants of tax morale can help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a cross-country approach which has not been investigated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134979
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
Duncan, Denvil - 2012
actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of … countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in observed income, but has a significantly smaller impact on actual … inequality, approximated by consumption-based GINIs. We show empirically that the differential effect on observed vs. actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099109
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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
Lehmann, Etienne - 2013
, extending the Diamond-Saez formula. The theory and numerical simulations on the US case show that the level and the slope of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074211
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How Tax Progression Affects Effort and Employment
Koskela, Erkki - 2007
Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax and tax exemption and a revenue-neutral change in the composition of labour taxation towards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776568