Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers

Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline and Mouez Fodha

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: This paper analyzes the environmental tax policy issues when labor is heterogeneous. The objective is to assess whether an environmental tax policy could be Pareto improving, when the revenue of the pollution tax is recycled by a change in the labor tax properties. We show that, depending on the heterogeneity characteristics of labor and on the initial structure of the tax system, a policy mix could be designed in order to leave each class of worker unharmed. It consists of an increase in progressivity together with a decrease in the flat rate component of the wage tax

Keywords: Environmental tax; heterogenous agents; welfare analysis; tax progressivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 D62 E62 H23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2008-12, Revised 2009-11
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Journal Article: Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers (2011)
Working Paper: Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers (2011)
Working Paper: Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers (2011)
Working Paper: Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers (2011)
Working Paper: Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers (2009)
Working Paper: Environmental Tax and the Distribution of Income among Heterogeneous Workers (2009)
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