Do Place-Based Tax Incentives Create Jobs?, ,
Chapter in NBER book Inequality and Public Policy, Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar 2018 (2020), Hilary W. Hoynes, Camille Landais, and Johannes Spinnewijn, organizers In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of place-based payroll taxes in stimulating local employment by exploiting a unique policy setting in Norway, where a system of geographically differentiated payroll taxes was suddenly abolished due to an EU regulation. The reform was enforced independently of the regional labor market developments, creating arguably exogenous variation in the payroll tax rates that firms in different local labor markets faced over time. We find evidence of partial shifting of payroll tax increases on to worker wages as well as a significant decline in local employment. These findings suggest that in settings with some degrees of wage rigidity, place-based payroll tax incentives can be effective in stimulating local employment. This chapter is not currently available on-line.
You may be able to access the full text of this document elsewhere. Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.104105 This chapter first appeared as NBER working paper w25115, Do Place-Based Tax Incentives Create Jobs?, Hyejin Ku, Uta Schönberg, Ragnhild C. Schreiner |
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