Can Tax Breaks Beat Geography? Lessons from the French Enterprise Zone Experience

Anthony Briant, Miren Lafourcade and Benoit Schmutz

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, vol. 7, issue 2, 88-124

Abstract: This paper shows that urban geography matters to the effectiveness of place-based policies, using the French enterprise zone program as a case study. Whereas this program created more jobs in spatially integrated neighborhoods, its impact on local wages was only visible in the more isolated ones. In addition, a focus on the average impact of the program would lead to the conclusion that it mostly succeeded in displacing preexisting firms, but a lower level of spatial isolation was a clear determinant of the decision to create new firms from scratch. (JEL H25, H32, L52, R32, R38)

JEL-codes: H25 H32 L52 R32 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pol.20120137
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