Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program
By David Neumark, Jed Kolko. 2010
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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. Because zone boundaries do not follow census tracts or zip codes, we created digitized maps of original zone boundaries and later expansions. We combine these maps with geocoded 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 program is ineffective in achieving its primary goals.
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Can Tax Breaks Beat Geography? Lessons from the French Enterprise Zone Experience (2012, background): “This is the path taken by Kolko and Neumark (2010) who, in a spirit similar to this paper, seek to study how effects vary within the California EZ program.”
- Location-based tax incentives: Evidence from India (2017, background): “There is also some related literature looking at the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in China (Wang (2010)) and industrial clusters in India (Fernandes and Sharma (2012)).”
- Do spatially targeted redevelopment programs spillover (2013, background): “…redevelopment policies, most of the previous literature ignores the potential for these programs to cause spillover effects in neighboring areas; with the notable exceptions of Dye and Merriman (2000), Weber et al. (2007), Chirinko and Wilson (2008), Neumark and Kolko (2010), and Ham et al. (2011).”
- Place-based tax exemptions and displacement effects: An evaluation of the Zones Franches Urbaines program☆ (2013, methodology): “6Before us, to our knowledge, only Neumark & Kolko (2010) use data at such a precise scale.”
- Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience (2012, neutral): “This result is challenged and contradicted by Neumark and Kolko (2010) who resort to a …ner geographic scale of analysis.”
- Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search (2018, background): “, 2010), or the impact of place-based policies (Neumark and Kolko, 2010; Ham et al., 2011; Gobillon et al., 2012; Givord et al., 2013; Busso et al., 2013).”
- Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness: The Role of Spatial Mismatch (2017, neutral): “…on identifying the role of spatial mismatch include moving jobs closer to neighborhoods with high unemployment, as is intended by enterprise zones (Neumark & Kolko, 2010); enhancing transportation links between high-unemployment neighborhoods and locations with an abundance of jobs, as is done…”
- People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs (2014, neutral): “The latest studies find conflicting results, with Neumark & Kolko (2010) concluding that the job-creating benefits of the California enterprise zones are negligible but Ham et al. (2011) concluding from an analysis of a broader national sample of enterprise zones that their effects are…”