Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 9-10, pp. 881-892
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....