People, places, and public policy: Some simple welfare economics of local economic development programs

P Kline, E Moretti - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2014 - annualreviews.org
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income, and
unemployment rates. A growing class of place-based policies attempts to address these …

[图书][B] The rise and fall of urban economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles

M Storper, T Kemeny, N Makarem, T Osman - 2015 - books.google.com
Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while
Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number …

Local labor markets

E Moretti - 2010 - nber.org
ABSTRACT I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market
outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general …

Assessing the incidence and efficiency of a prominent place based policy

M Busso, J Gregory, P Kline - American Economic Review, 2013 - aeaweb.org
This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban
Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census …

The planners' war against spatial mismatch: Lessons learned and ways forward

Y Fan - Journal of Planning Literature, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Most existing reviews on spatial mismatch have focused on its causes and consequences
rather than the successes and failures of planning practices for addressing this problem …

The mechanisms of spatial mismatch

L Gobillon, H Selod, Y Zenou - Urban studies, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The spatial mismatch hypothesis (SMH) argues that low-skilled minorities residing in US
inner cities experience poor labour market outcomes because they are disconnected from …

The economic impact of the coal boom and bust

D Black, T McKinnish, S Sanders - The Economic Journal, 2005 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we examine the impact of the coal boom in the 1970s and the subsequent coal
bust in the 1980s on local labour markets in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West …

Do enterprise zones create jobs? Evidence from California's enterprise zone program

D Neumark, J Kolko - Journal of Urban Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods to improve upon
evaluations of the effectiveness of state enterprise zones, focusing on California's program …

Government programs can improve local labor markets: Evidence from state enterprise zones, federal empowerment zones and federal enterprise community

JC Ham, C Swenson, A İmrohoroğlu, H Song - Journal of Public Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Federal and state governments spend well over a billion dollars a year on programs that
encourage employment development in disadvantaged labor markets through the use of …

Do local tax incentives affect economic growth? What mean impacts miss in the analysis of enterprise zone policies

D Bondonio, RT Greenbaum - Regional science and urban economics, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper exploits the exogenous variation of US state enterprise zone policies to estimate
the impact of geographically-targeted tax incentives on a number of dimensions of local …