Environment, Distributional Issues and Employment

Some household groups may be disproportionately affected by environmental policies according to their economic status or ethnicity. Inequality may also arise across generations as in the case of climate change policies. Policymakers need to design environmentally effective and economically efficient environmental policies while ensuring that distributional concerns are still addressed. In addition, analysing the direct and indirect, short and long-term employment effects of environmental policies has become particularly relevant in the context of sustainable development [more...].

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The Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy

14-Mar-2006

This publication is a milestone in the analysis of the distributional impacts of environmental policy, building upon existing literature to simultaneously examine disparities in the distribution of environmental impacts and in the distribution of financial effects amongst households.

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