Optimal taxation, public goods and environmental policy with involuntary unemployment

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Bovenberg, AL; vanderPloeg, F
• 署名单位: Tilburg University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(96)01574-5
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 59-83
• 关键词: unemployment; environmental policy; pollution; optimal taxation; public goods; marginal cost of public funds; labour taxation; factor substitution

摘要

The implications of more environmental concern for the optimal provision of public goods, tax structure, and involuntary unemployment are derived within a second-best framework in which lump-sum taxes are not available and labour supply is rationed owing to a rigid consumer wage. A shift towards greener preferences may boost employment and public consumption if initial environmental concern is small, a fixed factor plays a major role in production, and pollution is reduced through more labour-intensive production rather than a lower level of output.