Mediating Incentive Use

T. William Lester, Nichola J. Lowe and Allan Freyer

Economic Development Quarterly, 2014, vol. 28, issue 2, 132-146

Abstract: 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 article 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, the authors develop a theory of sectoral “mediation.†This enables the authors 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.

Keywords: incentives; mediation; employment impacts; firm retention and recruitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0891242413514771

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