Do place-based policies help people ? Evidence from French enterprise zones

Pauline Charnoz

No 2014-44, Working Papers from Center for Research in Economics and Statistics

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effect of enterprise zones on their residents. Using the French case, it provides results on a dimension that has not been much studied but is quite crucial for understanding the mechanisms at play : the social composition of the zones. It also provides new results for the French case, complementing and reconciling results of previous studies. The paper will show : first, a significant effect of the program on the unemployment rate of residents of French enterprise zones due, in large part, to the fact that some exemptions were made conditional on local hiring ; second, that this result is mainly due to composition effects. The unemployment rate of the residents decreases mainly because of a change in the resident composition of the zones. Enterprise zone programs with a local hiring condition seem to change the social mix of the zone.

Keywords: urban; evaluation; enterprise zone; place-based policy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J00 R10 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2014-01
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