Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones ? The French Experience

Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac and Harris Selod ()

No 2010-45, Working Papers from Center for Research in Economics and Statistics

Abstract: This paper is a statistical evaluation of the 1997 enterprise zone program in France. Weinvestigate whether the program increased the pace at which unemployed workers residing intargeted municipalities and surrounding areas ?nd employment. The work relies on a two-stage analysis of unemployment spells drawn from an exhaustive dataset over the 1993-2003period in the Paris region. We ?rst estimate a duration model strati?ed by municipalities inorder to recover semester-speci?c municipality e¤ects net of individual observed heterogene-ity. These e¤ects are estimated both before and after the implementation of the program,allowing us to construct variants of di¤erence-in-di¤erence estimators of the impact of theprogram at the municipality level. Following extensive robustness checks, we conclude thatenterprise zones have a very small but signi?cant e¤ect on the rate at which unemployedworkers ?nd a job. The e¤ect remains localized and is shown to be signi?cant only in theshort run.

Pages: 66
Date: 2010
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