2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The role of eco-industries from the perspective of environmental reform and job creation -An analysis in an open economy-
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23730246
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Fukui Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
SAITO Muneyuki 奈良県立大学, 地域創造学部, 准教授 (00547250)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 環境産業 / 公正賃金 / 貿易 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Through this research, we focued on the role of eco-industries which provide environmental goods and services. Concretely, we set up the model involving an external diseconomy and unemployment associated with the fair wage effort hypothesis, and then investigate the effects of an emission tax, a subsidy for purchasing environmental goods in the downstream polluting industry, and a subsidy to the upstream eco-industry. We then show that, if the eco-industry is skilled labor intensive relative to the polluting final goods industry, the subsidy for purchasing environmental goods decreases the unemployment rate of unskilled labor while it may increase the total emissions. On the other hand, the emission tax and the subsidy to eco-industry firms worsen the unemployment rate though these policies definitely decrease the total emissions.
Besides, we also wrote the paper regarding Recycled Content Standards in the case where there is an monopoly firm in a recycled materials market.
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| Free Research Field |
国際貿易
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