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Do unemployed workers benefit from enterprise zones? : the French experience
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - 2012
This paper presents an impact evaluation of the French enterprise zone program which was initiated in 1997 to help unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally....
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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/10013168211
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International trade and its effects on economic growth in China
Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - 2010
the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989717
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537265
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Revitalising the Silk Road : evidence from railway infrastructure investments in Northwest China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2022
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development … northwest China which connects China’s northwestern provinces along this Silk Road land route. We use a recently developed … geographical demarcation in China that is of vast economic significance, not all counties benefited from the opening of the HSR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330640
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Modeling international trade flows between Eastern European countries and OECD countries
Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor);  … - 2007
Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and the specific unobservable characteristics of each unit. We implement panel data econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607494
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Neighborhood dynamics and the housing price effects of spatially targeted economic development policy
Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2009
Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879342
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Fiscal competition for imperfectly-mobile labor and capital : a comparative dynamic analysis
Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901986
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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516454
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Sorting around the discontinuity threshold : the case of a neighbourhood investment programme
Gerritsen, Sander; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Weel, Bas ter - 2016
This paper investigates the empirical validity of the setup of a large-scale government neighbourhood investment programme in the Netherlands. Selection of neighbourhoods into the programme was determined by their score on a predetermined index. At first sight this is a textbook example for the...
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