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2012
- handle: 10670/1.uqymic
- hal: hal-00644023
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environmental control Wage inequality Welfare Tourism F - International Economics/F.F1 - Trade/F.F1.F10 - General Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation/Q.Q3.Q38 - Government PolicySujets proches
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Chao Chi-Chur et al., « Environmental Control, Wage Inequality and National Welfare for a Tourism Economy », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.uqymic
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This paper examines the effects of stricter environmental regulation on income distribution and welfare for an open economy with inbound tourism. The pollution input is considered as a mobile factor between sectors, and a decrease in it lowers wages of skilled labor in the traded sector but can increase the wages of unskilled labor in the non-traded sector. A stricter policy on environmental controls can narrow wage inequality and increase welfare if the tourism terms-of-trade effect dominates. These results are confirmed by simulations.