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Urban unemployment and the backward incidence of pollution control

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This paper employs a mobile capital version of the Harris-Todaro model to analyze the backward incidence of pollution abatement policies on some key variables of interest. Among other things, we show that national incomemay fall as a result of stronger pollution controls. However, more restrictive pollution controls cause the urban rate of unemployment to fall unambiguously.

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  1. Department of Economics and Finance, University of Dayton, 45469, Dayton, OH, USA

    Hamid Beladi & John Rapp

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Beladi, H., Rapp, J. Urban unemployment and the backward incidence of pollution control. Ann Reg Sci 27, 153–163 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01581943

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