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Author Bartik, Timothy J., author

Title Making sense of incentives : taming business incentives to promote prosperity / Timothy J. Bartik
Published Kalamazoo, Michigan : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (180 pages)
Series WEfocus Series
Summary "In evaluating incentives, everything depends on the details: how much in incentives it takes to truly cause a firm to locate or expand, the multiplier effects, the effects of jobs on employment rates, how jobs affect tax revenue versus public spending needs. Do benefits of incentives exceed costs? This depends on the details. This book is about those details. What magnitudes of incentive effects are plausible? How do benefits and costs vary with incentive designs? What advice can be given to evaluators? What is an ideal incentive policy? Answering these questions about incentives depends on a model of incentive effects, which this book provides"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-147) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Industrial promotion -- United States
New jobs tax credit -- United States
Industrial promotion
New jobs tax credit
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019037192
ISBN 0880996692
9780880996693
9780880996686
0880996684