Environmental-tax financed Social Security Tax Cuts and the Double Dividend

Tetsuo Ono

FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 2005, vol. 61, issue 2, 178-200

Abstract: This paper presents a two-period overlapping-generations model in which (i) firms create environmentally harmful emissions as by-products of production, and (ii) social security tax revenue from the working young is transferred to the retired elderly as pay-as-you go social security benefits. In this framework, the paper considers a revenue-neutral reform in which the government undertakes an environmental-tax-financed social security tax cut; the environmental-tax revenue is utilized as a means of financing social security benefits. It is shown that the reform attains a double dividend - namely, improvement is demonstrated in both the nonenvironmental and the environmental utility - when (i) the economy attains a dynamically inefficient equilibrium, (ii) the share of capital (labor) is low (high), and (iii) the social security tax rate before the reform lies within a certain range.

Keywords: revenue-neutral reform; social security tax cuts; social security reform; overlapping generations; environmental tax reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 H20 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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