Alleviating unemployment: The case for green tax reforms

European Economic Review

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1723-1746

  Koskela, Erkki ^a   Schöb, Ronnie ^b  

^a Department of Economics ^*  (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental tax reform; Equilibrium unemployment; Indexation; Tax shifting; Trade union behaviour; Unemployment benefit taxation; Wage bargaining

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; POLLUTION TAX; TAX REFORM; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0032744143     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(98)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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