Are green hopes too rosy? Employment and welfare impacts of renewable energy promotion

Energy Economics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 277-285

  Böhringer, Christoph ^a   Keller, Andreas ^a   van der Werf, Edwin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium; Double dividend; Renewable energy promotion; Wage rigidities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM; DOUBLE DIVIDEND; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS; FINANCING MECHANISMS; JOB CREATION; LABOR MARKETS; LABOR TAXES; POLICY MAKERS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; WELFARE IMPACTS;

EMPLOYMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; RIGIDITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; LABOR MARKET; MODEL TEST; THEORETICAL STUDY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84874290260     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2012.08.029     Document Type: Article

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