Previous research suggests that business startups andexpansions estimate employment targets by evaluating their own efficiency type.Low cost producers tend to expand operations, while high cost producers scaleback operations or exit the industry. The accuracy of this type of employmenttarget...

This paper examines the effects of state economic development incentives on the growth of 366 Ohio manufacturing and nonmanufacturing establishments that launched major expansions between 1993 and 1995. Growth is measured as the actual employment change that occurred in these establishments and...