increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …

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 … local governments; (2) expand the federal role in economic development services in which national action has some special … development, supporting the development of the "Information Superhighway," and encouraging new technology development; (3) provide …

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 … and incentives, business retention, new business development, high technology development, brownfield development …

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 …