Environmental taxation, inequality and Engel’s Law: the double dividend of redistribution

Empirical evidence shows that low-income households spend a high share of their income on pollution-intensive goods. This fuels the concern that an environmental tax reform could be regressive. We employ a framework which accounts for the distributional effect of environmental taxes and the recyclin...

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Main Authors: Klenert, D, Schwerhoff, G, Edenhofer, O, Mattauch, L
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer Verlag 2016