Briant, Anthony; Lafourcade, Miren; Schmutz, Benoît - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7 (2015) 2, pp. 88-124
This paper shows that urban geography matters to the effectiveness of place-based policies, using the French enterprise zone program as a case study. Whereas this program created more jobs in spatially integrated neighborhoods, its impact on local wages was only visible in the more isolated...