Author: Timothy J. Bartik

Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0880996684

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 incentive offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.