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Do "Some" Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?
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Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010
We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase…
Descriptors: Zoning, Job Development, Geographic Location, Program Implementation
How to Finance and Administer Rural Development Programs. Resources for Rural Development Series: Handbook No. 3.
National Area Development Inst., Rockport, TX. – 1977
One of a series, this handbook is designed to assist individuals involved in area development to gain knowledge and understanding of the public and private sources of funds for support of various area development activities. National, regional, and local private sector sources of development capital are examined to give an overview of business…
Descriptors: Banking, Capital, Community Development, Economic Development
Spending To Save: Expanding Employment Opportunities. Occasional Paper 1991-2.
Levitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – 1991
This paper explores the role of public jobs programs in the U.S. economy from the 1930s to the present. It postulates that jobs programs are necessary because they serve four separate but overlapping needs: alleviating joblessness, hardship, and poverty; helping the economy emerge from recession; providing jobs to able-bodied welfare recipients;…
Descriptors: Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development
Job Creation through Public Service Employment. An Interim Report to the Congress of the National Commission for Manpower Policy. Volume II: Monitoring the Public Service Employment Program. Report No. 6.
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Nathan, Richard P.; And Others – 1978
This second volume of a three-volume report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy on Public Service Employment (PSE) contains the interim report of the Brookings Institution to the Commission based on their onsite monitoring of the program. The report is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the report, and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Economic Research, Employment Patterns
Job Creation through Public Service Employment. An Interim Report to the Congress of the National Commission for Manpower Policy. Volume I: Summary of Findings and Recommendations. Report No. 6.
National Commission for Manpower Policy, Washington, DC. – 1978
This first volume of a three-volume report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy on Public Service Employment (PSE) contains the commission's findings and recommendations. This document is divided into four sections. Section 1 includes the letter of transmittal sent to Congress and a summary of the findings. Section 2 contains a full…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Economic Development
Youth Employment and Neighborhood Economic Development: Case Studies and Recommendations.
Engbretson, William E.; Levine, Eugene A. – 1980
The product of a study of urban Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs involving youths aged 16-22 that would result in real or potential job creation and community economic development, this report consists of 24 case studies and a series of recommendations pertaining to the development of similar programs in Illinois.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies