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This paper analyzes the double dividend and distributional issues within an overlapping generations model framework with involuntary unemployment. We characterize the necessary conditions needed to obtain a double dividend, when the revenue of the environmental tax is recycled by a variation of the labor tax rate. We show that an employment dividend may occur without any efficiency dividend and that the young generation is not always harmed by the fiscal reform, even without any intergenerational transfers. Therefore, three dividends (environmental, efficiency and intergenerational equity) can occur simultaneously.
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Chiroleu-Assouline, M., Fodha, M. Double Dividend with Involuntary Unemployment: Efficiency and Intergenerational Equity. Environ Resource Econ 31, 389–403 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-005-2040-7
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