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Mediating incentive use: A time-series assessment of economic development deals in North Carolina
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State incentive granting for the purpose of firm retention or recruitment remains highly controversial and is often portrayed as antithetical to long-range economic development planning as discussed by the authors, which is not the case.Abstract:
State incentive granting for the purpose of firm retention or recruitment remains highly controversial and is often portrayed as antithetical to long-range economic development planning. This artic...read more
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Symbolic transformation of environmental governance: implementation of EU biodiversity policy in Bulgaria and Croatia between Europeanization and domestic politics:
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Constitutionality of Real Estate Taxes and Corporate Location Incentives, and Some Associated Economic Psychology and Complex Systems Effects
Abstract: This chapter explains why the present regime of real property taxation and Corporate Location Incentives in the United States, Germany/EU and many common-law countries are unconstitutional, and can negatively affect economic growth and sustainability. The inherent constitutional economics issues affect government allocations and spending, corporate spending, site selection decisions of large companies; labor dynamics; local/regional employment and economic growth, household spending, business confidence, consumer confidence, sustainable growth and so on.
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A moving target: : rethinking industrial recruitment in an era of growing economic uncertainty
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Does it matter ‘who governs?’ Governance networks, local economic development policies, and the Great Recession
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether governance networks influence cities' use of local economic development policies, specifically business incentives, and if the role of networks changed during the Great Recession, using American cities that responded to the International City/County Management Association's Economic Development Survey in 2004 and 2009, hierarchical cluster analysis was employed to identify groups of cities with similar network membership patterns.
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Focus on State Economic Development Policy
TL;DR: The U.S. federalist structure intentionally distributes the management of public policies across the various levels of government as discussed by the authors, and the line between appropriate governmental distribution and management is clear.
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Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated conditions sufficient for identification of average treatment effects using instrumental variables and showed that the existence of valid instruments is not sufficient to identify any meaningful average treatment effect.
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Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs
Orley Ashenfelter,David Card +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the longitudinal structure of earnings of trainees and a comparison group to estimate the effectiveness of training for the 1976 cohort of CETA trainees by fitting a components-of-variance model of earnings to the control group, and posing a simple model of program participation.
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Bringing business clusters into the mainstream of economic development
TL;DR: A comparison of cases from Tupelo, Mississippi and Castel Goffredo, Lombardia, shows the relevance of clustering to localized economic development as mentioned in this paper, showing that the importance of lateral inter-firm relationships takes higher priority.
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Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use policy discontinuities at state borders to identify the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment in restaurants and other low-wage sectors, and show that traditional approaches that do not account for local economic conditions tend to produce spurious negative effects due to spatial heterogeneities in employment trends that are unrelated to minimum wage policies.
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The Failures of Economic Development Incentives
Alan Peters,Peter S. Fisher +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at three key effectiveness issues: Do economic development incentives encourage new investment and employment? Are these incentives targeted at economically depressed areas or economically depressed people? How costly are these incentives?