JUE Insight: The labor market effects of place-based policies: Evidence from England’s Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

IF 5.7 1区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Robert Calvert Jump , Adam Scavette
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Neighbourhood renewal programs are a type of place-based policy that aim to revive underperforming localities. The literature on place-based policies has found mixed results regarding their effects on local labor market outcomes, but there are relatively few studies of policies that aim to improve local labor supply. In this paper we examine the labor market effects of the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, which targeted 88 of the most deprived areas in England during the early 2000s as part of the Labour government’s National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. The fund disbursed almost £3 billion for spending on community safety, education, healthcare and worklessness, with supply-side interventions making up the bulk of the program’s spending on worklessness. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find statistically significant impacts on local employment. Our results suggest that policy interventions to improve local labor supply can be a successful strategy for neighborhood renewal.
觉》视角:以地方为基础的政策对劳动力市场的影响:来自英格兰邻里重建基金的证据
街区重建计划是一种以地方为基础的政策,旨在振兴表现不佳的地方。关于地方性政策的文献发现,这些政策对当地劳动力市场结果的影响有好有坏,但对旨在改善当地劳动力供应的政策的研究相对较少。在本文中,我们研究了 "邻里重建基金"(Neighbourhood Renewal Fund)对劳动力市场的影响。作为工党政府 "邻里重建国家战略"(National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal)的一部分,"邻里重建基金 "在 2000 年代初针对英格兰最贫困的 88 个地区开展了工作。该基金拨付了近 30 亿英镑,用于社区安全、教育、医疗保健和失业问题,其中供应方干预措施占了该计划在失业问题方面支出的大部分。利用差分法,我们发现该计划对当地就业有显著的统计影响。我们的研究结果表明,改善当地劳动力供应的政策干预可以成为街区重建的成功策略。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Urban Economics provides a focal point for the publication of research papers in the rapidly expanding field of urban economics. It publishes papers of great scholarly merit on a wide range of topics and employing a wide range of approaches to urban economics. The Journal welcomes papers that are theoretical or empirical, positive or normative. Although the Journal is not intended to be multidisciplinary, papers by noneconomists are welcome if they are of interest to economists. Brief Notes are also published if they lie within the purview of the Journal and if they contain new information, comment on published work, or new theoretical suggestions.
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