TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating place-based job creation programs in Japan
AU - Kazekami, Sachiko
N1 - Funding Information:
The author thanks Enrico Moretti, David Card, Patrick Kline, Jesse Rothstein, Hilary Hoynes, and Christopher Walters at the University of California, Berkeley; John Abowd at Cornell University; Till von Wachter at the University of California, Los Angeles; the participants of the Labor Lunch Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley; and the participants of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 2015 Fall Research Conference, the National Tax Association 108th Annual Conference, and the Southern Economic Association 85th Annual Meeting for their very helpful comments. The author is also thankful for the financial support provided by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (grant number: 25380377); and the Chukyo University Research Fund. The author is also grateful to the University of California, Berkeley, for providing facilities. Comments from two anonymous reviewers and the editor improved the manuscript, and the author would like to express appreciation to them.
Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - First, this paper empirically evaluates the incidence of the Japanese place-based job creation program, which has rarely been studied in Japan. The program increases employment, especially in the agricultural, retail trade, and service sectors, which most treated municipalities promote. Second, this paper explores the municipalities that the program affects most. Those with large aging populations and those with small working age populations decrease the effects of the program. Third, this paper assesses the externality effect of this program and does not observe a strong reduction in sales, workers, or establishments in the neighboring municipalities of a treated municipality.
AB - First, this paper empirically evaluates the incidence of the Japanese place-based job creation program, which has rarely been studied in Japan. The program increases employment, especially in the agricultural, retail trade, and service sectors, which most treated municipalities promote. Second, this paper explores the municipalities that the program affects most. Those with large aging populations and those with small working age populations decrease the effects of the program. Third, this paper assesses the externality effect of this program and does not observe a strong reduction in sales, workers, or establishments in the neighboring municipalities of a treated municipality.
KW - Externality effect
KW - Job creation
KW - Place-based policy
KW - Unemployment
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U2 - 10.1186/s40173-017-0079-z
DO - 10.1186/s40173-017-0079-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85011290527
SN - 2193-9004
VL - 6
JO - IZA Journal of Labor Policy
JF - IZA Journal of Labor Policy
IS - 1
M1 - 1
ER -
