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Targeted business incentives and the debt behavior of households

Di, Wenhua; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016

The empirical effects of place-based tax incentive schemes designed to aid low income communities are unclear. While a growing number of studies find beneficial effects on employment, there is little investigation into other behaviors of households affected by such programs. We analyze the...

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Replacing churches and mason lodges? : tax exemptions and rural development

Behaghel, Luc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Quantin, Simon - 2013

This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on total employment or the number of businesses, and...

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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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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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Government programs can improve local labor markets, but do they? : a re-analysis of Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011)

Neumark, David; Young, Timothy - 2017

Research on the effects of enterprise zones - especially state programs - has generally failed to find evidence of beneficial effects such job growth or poverty reduction. In contrast, Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011, hereafter HSIS) present evidence that state and federal enterprise...

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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...

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Empowerment zones, neighborhood change and owner occupied housing

Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment Zone program) on local neighborhood characteristics and on the neighborhood quality of life, taking into account the interactions amongst the policy, changes in neighborhood...

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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

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How transition paths differ : enterprise performance in Russia and China

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2005

We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated … with ownership or institutional factors. However, in Russia, enterprise growth is not associated with increases in factor …

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Regional income inequality in selected large countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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