Double Dividend Hypothesis: Can it Occur when Tackling Carbon Emissions?

The paper focuses on the double dividend hypothesis occurrence in case of carbon taxation enactment. Our assessment questions the conditional occurrence of the hypothesis, where environment improvement and the reduction of tax distortions depend not only on the design of carbon taxes but also on the complementary measures implemented to enhance their efficiency. This paper takes into consideration previous proposals to reduce labor taxation in order to strengthen double dividend hypothesis and aims to point out the risks of such measures, for they could endanger the process of pollution abatement. Due to this fact, the paper proposes another set of alternative measures to boost carbon taxation efficiency.