Do Place-Based Tax Incentives Create Jobs?

Hyejin Ku, Uta Schönberg and Ragnhild C. Schreiner
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No 25115, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of place-based payroll taxes in stimulating local employment by exploiting a unique policy setting in Norway, where a system of geographically differentiated payroll taxes was suddenly abolished due to an EU regulation. The reform was enforced independently of the regional labor market developments, creating arguably exogenous variation in the payroll tax rates that firms in different local labor markets faced over time. We find evidence of partial shifting of payroll tax increases on to worker wages as well as a significant decline in local employment. These findings suggest that in settings with some degrees of wage rigidity, place-based payroll tax incentives can be effective in stimulating local employment.

JEL-codes: D22 H25 H32 J18 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-09
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Published as Do Place-Based Tax Incentives Create Jobs? , Hyejin Ku, Uta Schönberg, Ragnhild C. Schreiner. in Inequality and Public Policy, Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar 2018 , Hoynes, Landais, and Spinnewijn. 2020
Published as Hyejin Ku & Uta Schönberg & Ragnhild C. Schreiner, 2020. "Do place-based tax incentives create jobs?," Journal of Public Economics, .

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