Urban Circular Policies and Employment through Greenfield FDI

Spyridon Stavropoulos, Martijn Burger and Joke Dufourmont
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Spyridon Stavropoulos: Department of Applied Economics and Erasmus Happiness Research Organization (EHERO), Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Joke Dufourmont: Circle Economy, Mauritskade 64, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-10

Abstract: This paper examines the association between circular strategies imposed by European cities on the attraction of greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) and the creation of circular gross employment through greenfield FDI. We utilize a recently developed database of circular strategies employed by local authorities in 43 European cities with information on greenfield FDI in these cities and other city characteristics for the years 2016–2017. We find that urban circular policies are positively and significantly associated with the attraction of greenfield FDI–generated employment, where the effect is stronger for regulatory and economic instruments compared to soft instruments.

Keywords: circular employment; circular strategies; FDI; policy instruments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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