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In light of the UK Coalition Government's announced intention to reform APD (Air Passenger Duty), this article examines the design flaws making APD an inadequate environmental tax. By identifying the misconceived consequences and environmental inefficiencies of this blunt instrument, the need...
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This study provides a critical assessment of various fiscal policy instruments - including direct public job creation, active labour market and care policies, social protection measures and tax reforms - and their effectiveness in supporting the most vulnerable groups in the labour market....
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estimates of secondary "off the books" employment that are consistent with survey evidence for the EU14 and United States. We …
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estimates of secondary "off the books" employment that are consistent with survey evidence for the EU14 and United States. We …
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In a world of high capital mobility, governments may be tempted to undercut each other's capital income taxes to attract capital from abroad. Since such tax competition may have detrimental effects for all countries, European policy makers have debated the introduction of a minimum capital...
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Unilateral climate policy induces carbon leakage through the relocation of emission-intensive and trade-exposed industries to regions with no or more lenient emission regulation. Both analytical and numerical studies suggest that emission pricing combined with border carbon adjustments may be a...
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Climate effects of unilateral carbon policies are undermined by carbon leakage. To counteract leakage and increase global cost-effectiveness carbon tariffs can be imposed on the emissions embodied in imports from non-regulating regions. We present a theoretical analysis on the economic...
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This paper synthesises the simulation studies concerning green tax reform (GTR) and employment double dividend (EDD) in … European and nonEuropean countries. The studies included investigate the effect of GTR on employment. We compared the …, but the average effect on employment in European countries (0.67%) is significantly greater than in non-European countries …
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