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Mediating incentive use: A time-series assessment of economic development deals in North Carolina

State incentive granting for the purpose of firm retention or recruitment remains highly controversial and is often portrayed as antithetical to long-range economic development planning. This paper uses quasi-experimental methods to measure the impact of state-level economic development incentives on employment growth at the establishment level in North Carolina. Using North Carolina's rich history of strategic planning and sector-based economic development as a backdrop, we develop a theory of sectoral mediation. This enables us to compare the effectiveness of incentives offered in mediated and nonmediated industries and show that when incentives are coupled with sectoral economic development efforts they generate substantially stronger employment effects than at establishments with limited sector-based institutional support.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Upjohn Institute Working Paper ; No. 12-184

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Development Planning and Policy: General
Industrial Policy
Institutions and Growth
Regional Development Planning and Policy
Thema
incentives
mediation
employment impacts
firm retention
recruitment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lester, T. William
Lowe, Nichola
Freyer, Allan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
(wo)
Kalamazoo, MI
(wann)
2012

DOI
doi:10.17848/wp12-184
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lester, T. William
  • Lowe, Nichola
  • Freyer, Allan
  • W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Entstanden

  • 2012

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