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Tax Costs and Employment Benefits of Enterprise Zones

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  • Kala Seetharam Sridhar

    (Ohio State University)

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This article answers a challenge raised against traditional economic development policy; recent research has shown that such policies, far from being zero sum, have positive-sum effects. The article examines these questions: Are the local benefits of tax incentives greater than the costs? Specifically, are benefits greatest in high-unemployment areas because of low reservation wages? If so, do such policies produce net benefits for a region, even if they redistribute jobs? To answer these questions, reservation wages are estimated as a function of unemployment. Net benefits and costs from new and relocated jobs are compared. The results indicate that overall local benefits are greater than the local costs of providing tax incentives. However untargeted provision of incentives is not recommended, even in high-unemployment areas. The article provides an alternative approach toward traditional policies and demonstrates that such policies do produce net benefits for the locality adopting them.

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  • Kala Seetharam Sridhar, 1996. "Tax Costs and Employment Benefits of Enterprise Zones," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 10(1), pages 69-90, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:10:y:1996:i:1:p:69-90
    DOI: 10.1177/089124249601000109
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    1. Thomas E. Lambert & Paul A. Coomes, 2001. "An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Louisville’s Enterprise Zone," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 15(2), pages 168-180, May.
    2. Felsenstein, Daniel & Fleischer, Aliza, 1999. "Capital Assistance and Small Firm Growth: Implications for Regional Economic Welfare," ERSA conference papers ersa99pa395, European Regional Science Association.
    3. Darin Wohlgemuth & Maureen Kilkenny, 1998. "Firm Relocation Threats and Copy Cat Costs," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 21(2), pages 139-162, August.
    4. Kala Seetharam Sridhar, 2005. "Benefits and Costs of Regional Development: Evidence from Ohio’s Enterprise Zone Programme," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Incentives for Regional Development, chapter 5, pages 87-114, Palgrave Macmillan.
    5. Daniel Felsenstein & Aliza Fleischer & Adi Sidi, 1998. "Market failure and the estimation of subsidy size in a regional entrepreneurship programme," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(2), pages 151-165, January.
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    7. Donald Haurin & Kala Sridhar, 2003. "The impact of local unemployment rates on reservation wages and the duration of search for a job," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(13), pages 1469-1476.
    8. repec:ind:nipfwp:04 is not listed on IDEAS
    9. Richard E. Kaglic & William A. Testa, 1999. "Slow work force growth: a challenge for the Midwest?," Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, vol. 23(Q II), pages 31-46.
    10. repec:npf:wpaper:04 is not listed on IDEAS
    11. Kala Seetharam Sridhar, 2006. "Local Employment Impact of Growth Centres: Evidence from India," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 43(12), pages 2205-2235, November.
    12. repec:ind:nipfwp:19 is not listed on IDEAS
    13. Roy, Sandip, 2021. "Risk-informed land-use planning in the Indian context: A social cost-benefit analysis," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    14. Sumei Zhang, 2020. "Do Research Methods Matter in Enterprise Zone Outcome Evaluations?," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 34(3), pages 299-309, August.
    15. Kala Seetharam Sridhar & A.V. Reddy, 2015. "India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS): Wages, Reservation Wages and Programme Participation in Chitradurga District of Karnataka," Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources, vol. 40(3-4), pages 366-384, August.
    16. Sridhar, Kala Seetharam, 2000. "Tax Incentive Programs and Unemployment Rate," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 30(3), pages 275-298, Winter.

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