Carbon pricing, technology transition,and skill-based development
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2019-09
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We analyze the impact of carbon prices on human capital accumulation, sectoral change, and economic growth. In our framework output is produced with dirty and/or clean technologies using skilled and unskilled labor as inputs. Carbon policy affects technology selection which transmits incentives for human capital formation. We show that a temporary policy may be sufficient for a transition to a clean economy and that such a policy also stimulates economic growth. Moreover, in the presence of inter-country knowledge spillovers, a carbon policy in the North helps human capital formation in the South and induces South’s transition to the clean steady state.
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118
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252 - 269
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Elsevier
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Carbon pricing; Education; Clean and dirty technologies; Temporary policies
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03635 - Bretschger, Lucas (emeritus) / Bretschger, Lucas (emeritus)
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