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| Author: | Williams, R. C. III |
| Title: | Environmental Tax Interactions when Pollution Affects Health or Productivity |
| Journal: | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
2002 : SEP, VOL. 44:2, p. 261-270 |
| Index terms: | ENVIRONMENT REGULATIONS TAXATION POLLUTION CONTROL PRODUCTIVITY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Recent studies indicate that interactions with the tax- distorted labor market increase the cost of pollution regulation. However, these studies make restrictive assumptions regarding preferences and ignore key links between pollution, human health, and labor productivity. Together, these assumptions imply that pollution does not affect labor supply. This paper develops an analytical general-equilibrium model that considers several potential benefits from reduced pollution, including improved health or productivity. It shows that these benefits affect labor supply and thus create a benefit-side tax-interaction effect that can be of the same magnitude as the familiar cost-side interaction. When reduced pollution boosts labor productivity, the effect substantially magnifies such benefits. |
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