| Autore |
Bartik Timothy J.
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Kalamazoo, Michigan : , : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, , [2019]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (180 pages)
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| Disciplina |
338.973
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| Collana |
WEfocus Series
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| Soggetto topico |
New jobs tax credit
Industrial promotion
New jobs tax credit - United States
Industrial promotion - United States
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| ISBN |
0-88099-669-2
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Why Incentives Are Tempting but Problematic -- What We Talk about When We Talk about Incentives -- Why Job Growth? -- Why Targeted Incentives? Political Reasons -- Why Targeted Incentives? Economic Rationale -- Wasteful Incentives -- Evaluating Incentives -- 2 A Description of Business Incentives -- Incentive Trends -- Incentives Today -- How Large Are Incentives? -- Which Firms Get Incentives? -- Do Incentives Target Needy Areas? -- Long-Term Incentives -- Understanding Incentives -- 3 Multipliers and Leakages: How to Think about Incentives -- Multipliers and Spillovers -- Leakages and Negative Feedbacks -- Key Factors Affecting Incentive Benefits -- Differences from Usual Incentive Models -- The Devil Is in the Details -- 4 Improving Incentives: What Can Policymakers Do? -- The Baseline Model -- Why Average Incentives Have Benefits Close to Costs -- Average Incentives Are Dominated by Better Policies -- Better Incentive Policies -- 5 Are My State's Incentives Working? Practical Evaluation Strategies for Incentive Programs -- Use a Model -- Evaluating Job Creation Effects on Incented Firms: The Selection Bias Challenge -- Overcoming Selection Bias -- Surveys -- Applying National Studies to State-Specific Incentives -- What Should an Evaluator Do? -- We Already Know Something about Ideal Policies -- 6 An Ideal State Incentive Program, Taking Account of 89 -- Principles -- An Ideal Program -- Possible Questions, with Responses -- The State Perspective vs. the National Perspective -- 7 The National Interest: What Should the Federal Government Do about State and Local Incentives? -- Is State and Local Competition for Jobs a Zero-Sum Game? -- Customized Business Services Can Make the National Economic Pie Bigger.
Targeting Distressed Areas Can Make the National Economic Pie Bigger and Help the Nonemployed -- Targeting High-Tech Clusters Can Make the National Economy More Productive by Augmenting Agglomeration Economies -- Rejoining the Real World: Actual Incentive Practice Is Unlikely to Have Net National Benefits -- A Simple Solution -- Balancing State Sovereignty with National Interests -- A National Proposal -- Moving on from the Ideal -- 8 A Practical Path Forward -- Transparency -- Evaluation -- Alternatives -- A Full-Employment Economy -- The Baby and the Bathwater -- Notes -- References -- Author -- Index -- About the Institute -- Back Cover.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524685203321 |
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Making Sense of Incentives : Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity / / Timothy J. Bartik
