that economic development programs to increase metropolitan job growth will have a progressive effect if the cost per job … created is low, and these costs are financed by personal taxes. But economic development programs with a high cost per job …

This paper provides a guide to economic development policies for local government managers. Local economic development … local government managers, this paper suggests a number of guiding principles, including: local economic development should … be pursued cooperatively across the local labor market; economic development programs should consider the quality of jobs …

The federal government should focus its policies towards economic development on areas in which the federal government … has some unique advantages. Federal policy should: (1) discourage financial subsidies to specific large firms by state and … local governments; (2) expand the federal role in economic development services in which national action has some special …

This chapter seeks to provide useful advice for local government policy towards economic development programs. The … chapter: reviews the size and scope of local economic development programs in the United States; critically analyzes the … various rationales offered for these programs; makes recommendations for what local policy should do about business attraction …

This paper considers how a state such as Michigan can increase the economic development benefits of higher education …. Research evidence suggests that higher education increases local economic development principally by increasing the quality of … the local workforce, and secondarily by increasing local innovative ideas. These economic development benefits of higher …

This paper argues that more rigorous evaluations of local economic development policies are feasible. Programs that aid …

the economic development of a metropolitan area. This examination pulls together previous research and provides some new … empirical evidence. We provide quantitative evidence of the magnitude of economic effects of higher education and medical …

This paper describes the role of local partnerships in the delivery of workforce and economic development services in … Employment and Economic Development (LEED) Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD … summarizes the history of local partnerships in the United States, tracks the separate evolution of workforce and economic …

This paper reviews the research literature relevant to economic development incentives provided by state and local … quality, accessibility, and performance in incentives, and better benefit-cost analyses of incentives. …

The question addressed in this paper seems simple: Can economic development programs be evaluated? But the answer is …