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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Springer Verlag
2016
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