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T1 Coupling environmental transition and social prosperity: a scenario-analysis of the Italian case
A1 Cieplinski, A.
A1 D’Alessandro, S.
A1 Distefano, T.
A1 Guarnieri, P.
K1 Ecological Macroeconomics
K1 Ecological Macroeconomics
K1 CO2 Emissions
K1 Green Growth
K1 Working Time Reduction
K1 Basic Income
K1 3322.05 Fuentes no Convencionales de Energía
AB This paper investigates to what extent green growth is able to promote social equity and which socialpolicies can complement environmental policies to achieve social prosperity and sustainability. We de-velop a dynamic macrosimulation model to explore the social and structural effects of the Italian nationalenergy and climate plan. We show that green growth alone will not result in better societal conditionsand needs to be compensated with social policies that directly tackle inequality. Consequently, we selecttwo social policies that are expected to improve income distribution, namely a basic income programmeand working time reduction. Our scenario analysis shows that working time reduction leads to an in-crease in employment and a parallel decrease in aggregate demand that causes a reduction in emissionsand inequality. The basic income programme reduces inequality by sustaining aggregate demand which,in turn, partially offsets the positive environmental effects of the energy plan.
PB Elsevier
SN 0954-349X
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67491
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67491
LA spa
NO Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, June 2021, Volume 57, Pages 265 - 278
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 22-jun-2024