Green tax reform and employment: the interaction of profit and factor taxes

Stefan Boeters

No 01-45, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: The employment effects of an ecological tax reform depend decisively on the presence of a profit tax and on the extent to which profits are taxed. This is shown in a model where firms have monopoly power on product markets and bargain over wages with unions on the labour market. In the setting, the value of the employment-maximising energy tax rate depends on the level of the profit tax. The question of wheather there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important.

Keywords: factor taxes; profit taxes; ecological tax reform; trade unions; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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