Employment and Environmental Protection: The Tradeoffs in an Economy in TransitionFocuses on the tradeoff between unemployment and environmental protection in economies in transition of Eastern Europe in general and in the Russian Federation in particular. |
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air pollution analysis Andrei Shleifer assumed Bezgreblnaya combined cycle convert to September CORNER SOLUTIONS costs of unemployment CSERGE DAMAGE COSTS damage estimates distribution of duration double dividend argument duration of unemployment earnings economies in transition elasticity emissions environmental costs environmental damages environmental protection excess mortality External Costs Harvard Institute health damages healthy worker effect HIID immediate closure increased by 12.4 industrial Institute for International Interior Solution International Development Jeffrey Jeffrey D Krupnick L(int labor leisure level of unemployment loss of income loss of welfare MARGINAL BENEFIT MARGINAL COST minimum closure months mortality risk non-working OECD OECD countries optimal policy Original 1992 figures output parameters Particulates percent plant production function rubles/month Russian Federation Section September 1996 prices shown in Figure simple model SO₂ social costs studies Theodore Panayotou Tianlun Jian tradeoff transition economies Ukraine unemployed unemployment costs unemployment rate valuation VOSL workers