TY  - JOUR
AU  - Neumark,David
AU  - Kolko,Jed
TI  - Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14530
PY  - 2008
Y2  - December 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14530
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14530.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Neumark
Department of Economics
University of California at Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA  92697
Tel: 949-824-8496
Fax: 949/824-2182
E-Mail: dneumark@uci.edu

Jed Kolko
Trulia
116 New Montgomery St, 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA  94105
E-Mail: jdkolko@yahoo.com
AB  - 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.
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