2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The analyses of implications for international public finance policy recommendations in the presence of unemployment and environmental problems.
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15530208
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Public finance/Monetary economics
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| Research Institution | Otaru University of Commerce |
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Principal Investigator |
SUMINO Ko Otaru University of Commerce, Faculty of Commerce, Professor, 商学部, 教授 (20226608)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | unemployment / unemployment benefits / environmental problems / public policy / polluting taxes / Pigovian taxes |
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| Research Abstract |
Addressing environmental issues typically involves taxs and other policy instruments. We have taken part in the discussion regarding the effects of unemployment benefits. It has shown that unemployment benefits may well decrease unemployment as long as these are indexed by the competitive wage and are financed by the corporate income tax, via using the balanced budget incidence analysis. Hence, we have a strong argument of counter-intuitive effects of unemployment benefits.
From economists' standpoint, environmental issues can be divided into two categories. The first one consists of the issues associated with environmental tax reforms. The second category addresses optimal tax problems associated with externalities. We reexamined the optimal tax problems in the presence of externalities. Efficiency restrain levels of polluting taxs generate revenues so that we can reduce rates on consumption commodities that distort the functioning of the economy. So these polluting taxs can reduce excessive levels of pollution and also these revenues can use unemployment benefits. These public policies can decrease unemployment labors.
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