Environmental Fiscal Reform and Unemployment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Theoretical approaches to environmental fiscal reforms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Environmental taxation and the double-dividend: The role of factor substitution and capital mobility

      • A. Lans Bovenberg, Ruud A. De Mooij

      Pages 3-52

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   3. Shifting taxes from value added to material inputs

      • Robert Repetto

      Pages 53-72

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   4. Environmental taxation and employment in a multi-sector general equilibrium model

      • Carlo Carraro, Antoine Soubeyran

      Pages 73-92

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   5. Optimal government policy, the environment, employment, and tax shifting

      • Jenny E. Ligthart, Frederick Van Der Ploeg

      Pages 93-120

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   6. Environmental policy, worker moral hazard, and the double dividend issue

      • Jon Strand

      Pages 121-135

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3. Empirical assessment of environmental fiscal reforms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Labour market institutions and the double dividend hypothesis

      • Giorgio Brunello

      Pages 139-170

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   3. The double dividend hypothesis, the environmental benefits and the international coordination of tax recycling

      • S. Proost, D. Van Regemorter

      Pages 171-191

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   4. Double dividend analysis: First results of a general equilibrium model (GEM-E3) linking the EU-12 countries

      • P. Capros, P. Georgakopoulos, S. Zografakis, S. Proost, D. Van Regemorter, K. Conrad et al.

      Pages 193-227

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   5. Employment, wage formation and pricing in the European Union: Empirical modelling of environmental tax reform

      • Terry Barker, Ben Gardiner

      Pages 229-272

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4. Back Matter

   Pages 273-273

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The European Union faces several interlinked challenges: how to protect the environment and favour sustainability; how to reduce unemployment and foster competitiveness in a context of growing globalization; how to reduce regional disparities among and within me mb er countries. The recent policy debate has clarified that the above objectives are not a trade off if jointly tackled. In particular, win-win policy options are available to the European Union by an appropriate integration of regulation, macro­ policy, social policy, fiscal policy and environmental policy. Evidence shows that optimising on each single policy will not meet the needs of the European Union. On the contrary, an integrated approach will make it possible to reach the various objectives, as stated in the Treaty on European Union, in the 5th Environmental Action Programme, in the White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness and Employment. This integrated approach would im­ plement a genuine sustainable development policy.

• Employment
• development
• integration
• labor market
• mobility
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• unemployment

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