We revisit the influence of environmental policy on economic activity taking into account the impact of pollution on morbidity and its effect on the labor productivity age-profile. We find that the negative effect of environmental policy on the standard of living is modified by two opposite...

We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on individual optimal choices. In this framework, the effect of environmental taxation are not limited to the traditional negative crowding-out and positive productivity effects. We...

We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on individual optimal choices. In this framework, the effects of environmental taxation are not limited to the traditional negative crowding-out and positive productivity effects. We...

[fre] Cet article montre comment la prise en compte d'une décision privée de formation dans la production modifie les choix individuels de formation scolaire et d''innovation et complexifie la relation entre accumulation de capital humain, innovation et croissance. Il suggère une possible...

This article investigates the influence of environmental policy (EP) on growth in an AK-type growth model, when finite lifetime is introduced and the link between pollution and life expectancy (through the detrimental impact of pollution on health) is taken into account. Using an overlapping...

This paper studies how firms choose their organization of work, i.e. how they assign heterogenous workers to different production tasks. It demonstrates the existence of different strategies of work organization which depend on the workers? ability to acquire new competence by performing a...

This article shows that with time separable preferences (between consumption and leisure), the environmental tax enhances the long run accumulation of human capital because labor supply (i) only depends on wage and not on the level of consumption and (ii) influences the returns to education....