Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity - Softcover

Timothy J. Bartik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880996684 ISBN 13: 9780880996686

Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2019

Synopsis

Bartik provides a clear and concise overview of how state and local governments employ economic development incentives in order to lure companies to set up shop - and provide new jobs - in needy local labor markets. He shows that many such incentives offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.

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About the Author

Timothy J. Bartik is a senior economist at the Upjohn Institute. His research focuses on state and local economic development and local labor markets. Bartik s 1991 book, Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies?, is widely cited as an important and influential review of the evidence on how local policies affect economic development. His most recent research includes a 2017 report outlining a new database on business incentives offered by state and local governments, a 2018 report on the benefits and costs of incentives, another 2018 report on how to help manufacturing-intensive communities, and a 2019 paper on how place-based policies can promote overall economic growth. Bartik is coeditor of the academic journal Economic Development Quarterly, which focuses on state and local economic development issues. He received his BA from Yale University and his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Prior to joining the Upjohn Institute in 1989, he was an assistant professor of economics at Vanderbilt University.

Edition details

• Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880996684
• ISBN 13: 9780880996686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178