Economic Development Incentives, Reported Job Creation, and Local Employment

Effective local strategies to boost quality job creation, employment, and participation

Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's

How Capital Markets Enhance Economic Performance and Facilitate Job Creation

Economic Development Incentive Wars What influence do State and Local Economic Development incentives have on the location decisions of firms?

State and local policymakers throughout the country experience tremendous pressure from their constituents to create policy tools that spur job growth and reduce unemployment in their jurisdictions. One tool that has been viewed by policymakers as useful in stimulating job growth and reducing unemployment has been economic development incentives. Despite this view, there has been growing concer...

Education, Employment and Economic Development in Pakistan

The ‘new growth theory’ has been highly influential in explaining the differences in the economic performance of developing countries. Economic backwardness is highly linked to low labor efficiency and training, deficient supplies of entrepreneurship and slow growth in knowledge. The countries that have surged ahead, on the other hand, are characterized by high level of human capital accumulati...