Place-Based PoliciesDavid Neumark and Helen Simpson Chapter Chapter 18 in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, 2015, vol. 5, pp 1197-1287 from Elsevier Abstract: Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various hypotheses in urban and labor economics, such as agglomeration economies and spatial mismatch—hypotheses that entail market failures and often predict overlap between poor economic performance and disadvantaged residents. The evidence on enterprise zones is very mixed. We need to know more about what features of enterprise zone policies make them more effective or less effective, who gains and who loses from these policies, and how we can reconcile the existing findings. Some evidence points to positive benefits of infrastructure expenditure and also investment in higher education and university research—likely because of the public-goods nature of these policies. However, to better guide policy, we need to know more about what policies create self-sustaining longer run gains. Keywords: Place-based policies; Employment; Enterprise zones; Discretionary grants; Higher education; Industrial clusters; Infrastructure; R12; R38; J68; H25 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:regchp:5-1197 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59531-7.00018-1 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics from Elsevier |
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