likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local … sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor stores is significantly increased in jurisdictions where sales tax … rates increase. We also find that manufacturing employment is significantly lowered in these jurisdictions. These results …

among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy … of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could … with production costs would be worth at least half a billion dollars …

employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …

This paper shows that firms spread the adverse impacts of local employment shocks across regions through their internal … establishment-level employment responds strongly to employment shocks in other regions in which the firm has establishments …. Consistent with theory, the elasticity of establishment-level employment with respect to shocks in other regions is increasing …

professional employment among southern blacks. The large-scale desegregation of southern schools occurring after passage of the … 1964 Civil Rights Act represented a potential threat to this employment base, and this paper estimates how student … integration affected black teacher employment. Using newly assembled archival data from 781 southern school districts observed …