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Should place-based jobs policies be used to help distressed communities?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2019
Should policymakers seek to increase jobs in particular local labor markets? Yes, but only if these policies are well targeted and designed. Encouraging job growth in distressed places can cause persistent gains in employment-to-population ratios. But our current place-based jobs policies, under...
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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey
Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014
, however, in less developed countries RDAs are worked to increase the usage of natural sources and to reduce the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487841
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Strategies for Reducing Regional Disparities in Romania
Stefanescu, Razvan; Dumitriu, Ramona - 2021
The disparities in the development of a country’s regions could threat the social and political equilibrium of a nation. In general, the reduction of such disparities is a complex task for the governments, involving substantial resources and long periods of time. This paper approaches the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312347
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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment : A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Pastore, Francesco - 2012
This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096147
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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083818
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What should Michigan be doing to promote long-run economic development?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2009
I thank Claire Black and Wei-Jang Huang for assistance in preparing this paper. I appreciate the comments of George Erickcek on a preliminary version of this paper. This paper was previously presented on November 20, 2009 at the 57th Annual Economic Outlook Conference of the Research Seminar in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921926
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Simulating the effects of Michigan's MEGA tax credit program on job creation and fiscal benefits
Bartik, Timothy J.; Erickcek, George A. - 2012
This paper simulates job and fiscal impacts of Michigan's MEGA tax credit program for job creation. Under plausible assumptions about how such credits affect business location decisions, the net costs per job created of the MEGA program are simulated to be of modest size. The job creation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612270
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The regional distribution of income and wages : causes and consequences
Immel, Lea - 2021
Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484032
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Simulating the Effects of Michigan’s Mega Tax Credit Program on Job Creation and Fiscal Benefits
Bartik, Timothy; Erickcek, George A. - 2012
This paper simulates job and fiscal impacts of Michigan’s MEGA tax credit program for job creation. Under plausible assumptions about how such credits affect business location decisions, the net costs per job created of the MEGA program are simulated to be of modest size. The job creation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166212
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Spatial conditions for development of activation of peripheral areas : the case of northern Poland
Sołtys, Jacek - 2012
characterized by features such as: high unemployment, relatively impoverished populations, low productivity, low territorial … enterprises per capita, average monthly gross wages and salaries, unemployment rate, participation of the urban population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506989