Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie; Sinn, Hans-Werner (2000): Green tax reform and competitiveness. ETLA Discussion Papers, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), 731 |
Abstract
This paper studies a revenue-neutral green tax reform that substitutes energy for wage taxes in an open economy with unemployment. As long as the labour tax rate exceeds the energy tax rate, such a reform will increase employment, reduce the domestic firms’ unit cost of production and hence increase international competitiveness and output of the economy. The driving force behind these results is the technological substitution process that a green tax reform will bring about. The resulting reduction in unemployment is welfare increasing since energy, which the country has to buy at its true national opportunity cost, is replaced with labour, whose price is above its social opportunity cost.
Item Type: | Paper (Discussion Paper) |
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Faculties: | Economics Economics > Chairs > Chair for Public Economics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
Language: | English |
ID Code: | 19502 |
Deposited On: | 15. Apr 2014 08:51 |
Last Modified: | 29. Apr 2016 09:16 |