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Environmental Protection and Urban Unemployment

其他書名	Environmental Policy Reform in a Polluted Dualistic Economy
出版	SSRN, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UYPbzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This paper explores sufficient conditions for the welfare-improving environmental policy reform in the Harris-Todaro economy. A rise in the pollution tax rate in the urban manufacturing has on the two labor market distortions: The manufacturing employment and the urban unemployment. If both are weakened the welfare improves. Otherwise, we need to develop an alternative sufficient condition. It is shown that there exists a range of welfare-improving pollution tax rates, and that it corresponds to the lower values of tax rate. This range may by the wage subsidy policy and the technological change toward pollution-intensive techniques.