TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kolko,Jed
AU  - Neumark,David
TI  - Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15206
PY  - 2009
Y2  - August 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15206
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15206.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jed Kolko
Trulia
116 New Montgomery St, 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA  94105
E-Mail: jdkolko@yahoo.com

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
AB  - We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment. However, the evidence also suggests that the enterprise zone program has a more favorable effect on employment in zones that have a lower share of manufacturing and in zones where managers report doing more marketing and outreach activities. On the other hand, devoting more effort to helping firms get hiring tax credits reduces or eliminates any positive employment effects, which may be attributable to idiosyncrasies of California’s enterprise zone program during the period we study.
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