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The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
Neumark, David; Zhang, Junfu; Ciccarella, Stephen - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2006
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976995
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The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
Neumark, David; Zhang, Junfu; Ciccarella, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763822
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Chapter 18. Place-Based Policies
Neumark, David; Simpson, Helen - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 1197-1287). 2015
Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025297
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The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
Neumark, David; Zhang, Junfu; Ciccarella, Stephen M. - 2021
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317247
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Place-Based Policies
Neumark, David; Simpson, Helen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951427
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Beaches, sunshine, and public-sector pay: theory and evidence on amenities and rent extraction by government workers
Brueckner, Jan K.; Neumark, David - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011
The absence of a competitive market and the presence and strength of public-sector labor unions make it likely that public-sector pay reflects an element of rent extraction by government workers. In this paper, we test a specific hypothesis that connects such rent extraction to the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399145
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787018
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Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program
Neumark, David; Kolko, Jed - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
observations on most businesses located in California. The evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment. We … also find no shift of employment toward the lower-wage workers targeted by enterprise zone incentives. We conclude that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029674
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Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?
Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration … of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment …. However, the evidence also suggests that the enterprise zone program has a more favorable effect on employment in zones that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033491
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; McInerney, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
employment of black male residents in ways that would be predicted by the spatial mismatch hypothesis - in particular that … that it is primarily black job density that influences black male employment, whereas white job density has little if any … influence on their employment. The evidence implies that space alone plays a relatively minor role in low black male employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088949