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Environmental Tax Reform and Income Distribution with Imperfect Heterogeneous Labour Markets

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This paper investigates the distributional and efficiency consequences of an environmental tax reform that distributes the revenue from a green tax according to varying labour tax rates. We build a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous workers, imperfect labour markets (search and match), and pollution consumption externalities. Preferences are non-homothetic (Stone-Geary utility) to take into account the potential regressivity of green taxes (the polluting good is assumed to be a necessary good). If the reform appears regressive, the gains from the double dividend can achieve Pareto improvement, using a redistributive non-linear income tax if the redistribution is not too great initially. Increasing progressivity influences the unemployment rate and can moderate the trade-off between equity and efficiency. We finally provide numerical illustrations for France and conduct sensitivity analysis.
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halshs-02095150 , version 1 (22-10-2021)

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Diane Aubert, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline. Environmental Tax Reform and Income Distribution with Imperfect Heterogeneous Labour Markets. European Economic Review, 2019, 116, pp.60-82. ⟨10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.03.006⟩. ⟨halshs-02095150⟩
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