Green Tax Reform and Employment: The Interaction of Profit and Factor Taxes

Stefan Boeters

FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 2004, vol. 60, issue 2, 222-239

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 labor market. In this setting, the value of the employment-maximizing energy tax rate depends on the level of the profit tax. The question of whether 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: 2004
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