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Carbon taxation and climate policy Location: Auditorium C: Thore Johnsen Session Chair: Rik Rozendaal, Tilburg University | |
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Climate Policy and Labor Market Inequality Gothenburg University, Sweden This paper investigates the environmental and economic effects of carbon taxation in Sweden, and their implications for labor market inequality. Using matched employer-employee data from the Swedish registers for the years 2004-2018, I estimate the effects of a reform that increased the stringency of the tax for a subset of firms in the manufacturing sector. Using a difference-in-difference framework, I find that the reform significantly reduced emissions among treated firms. However, it also reduced the employment of workers without a high school degree. In addition, I find that negative employment impacts are concentrated among emission-intensive firms, which face the largest cost increases when carbon tax rates rise. The results show that carbon taxation, while effective at reducing emissions, may have strongly heterogeneous employment impacts, and that complementary policies might be needed to address labor market inequalities when implementing climate policy. | |