Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Aggregate and Distributional Effects

Cezar Santos
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Tiago Vanderlei de Vasconcelos Cavalcanti

Working Papers from Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department

Abstract: We evaluate the aggregate and distributional effects of climate change mitigation policies using a multi-sector equilibrium model with intersectoral inputoutput linkages and worker heterogeneity calibrated to different countries. The introduction of carbon taxes leads to changes in relative prices and inputs reallocation, including labor. For the United States, reaching its Paris Agreement pledge would imply at most a 0.6% drop in output. This impact is distributed asymmetrically across sectors and individuals.Workers with a comparative advantage in dirty energy sectors who do not reallocate bear relatively more of the cost but constitute a small fraction of the labor force.

JEL-codes: E13 H23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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