The Employment Creation Effects of Factor Subsidies: Some Estimates for Northern Ireland Manufacturing Industry, 1955‐1983

Harris, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1991.tb00130.x

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“…This includes shift-share analysis (see the survey in Ashcroft, 1982), quasi-experiments (Bohm and Lind, 1993), and econometrical models (Harris, 1991) 8 . These studies are based on data from several European countries, where subsidies on employment have been tried as a regional policy instrument.…”

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The impact of regional employment subsidies under wage bargaining

Østbye

1998

The Annals of Regional Science

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I would like to thank Kurt Brännäs and Karl-Gustaf Löfgren for their assistance and encouragement, and two anonymous referees for useful suggestions. I am grateful to Bent Dreyer and Leif Ellingsen for providing me with some of the data. The usual disclaimer applies.Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to empirically assess the impact on employment of regional labour subsidies. A structural model, consistent with cost minimizing behaviour and wage bargaining, is estimated using data on fish-processing firms in Norway. The estimates are consistent with firms minimizing costs and wages being set by an industry level monopoly union. The results suggest that subsidies increase employment considerably. The union only captures a small fraction of the subsidy.

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The impact of regional employment subsidies under wage bargaining

Østbye

1998

The Annals of Regional Science

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“…6 Much ink has been spilt in refining the estimation techniques using different specifications. Early estimates, such as those of Tooze (1968), Buck and Atkins (1976), and O'Donnell and Swales (1979) used the marginal productivity of labor side relation in the absence of the capital stock, whereas later studies used explicit measures of the capital stock (Harris 1991). The problems that aggregation poses for the CES production have been examined by the simulations of Fisher et al (1977).…”

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Problems with Regional Production Functions and Estimates of Agglomeration Economies: A Caveat Emptor for Regional Scientists

Felipe

McCombie

2012

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in ABSTRACTOver the last 20 years or so, mainstream economists have become more interested in spatial economics and have introduced largely neoclassical economic concepts and tools to explain phenomena that were previously the preserve of economic geographers. One of these concepts is the aggregate production function, which is also central to much of regional growth theory. However, as Franklin Fisher, inter alios, has shown, the conditions necessary to aggregate microproduction functions into an aggregate production function are so stringent that in all probability the aggregate production function does not exist. This paper shows that the good statistical fits commonly found empirically are solely due to the use of value data and an underlying accounting identity. The result is that the estimates obtained cannot be regarded as providing evidence of the underlying technological structure of the spatial economy, including the aggregate elasticity of substitution, the degree of returns to scale, and the rate of technical progress.

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“…This characterisation of the labour-market explicitly or implicitly characterises much UK theoretical and empirical regional analysis (Arup Economics and Planning, 2000;Harris, 1991;Holden and Swales, 1995;Roper and O'Shea, 1991).…”

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The Impact of the Barnett Formula on the Scottish Economy: Endogenous Population and Variable Formula Proportions

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The Barnett formula is the official basis upon which increments to public funds are allocated to the devolved regions of the UK for those parts of the budget that are administered locally.There is considerable controversy surrounding the implications of its strict application for the relevant regions. The existing literature focuses primarily on the equity of the spatial changes to government per capita expenditure that would accompany such a change. In contrast, this paper attempts to quantify the system-wide economic consequences -the real, relative resource squeeze that accompanies the financial relative squeeze -on one devolved region, Scotland.The analysis uses a multi-sectoral regional computable general equilibrium modelling approach.We highlight the importance of population endogeneity, particularly since the population proportions used in the formula are now regularly up-dated.3

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The Employment Creation Effects of Factor Subsidies: Some Estimates for Northern Ireland Manufacturing Industry, 1955‐1983

Cited by 49 publications

References 19 publications

The impact of regional employment subsidies under wage bargaining

The impact of regional employment subsidies under wage bargaining

Problems with Regional Production Functions and Estimates of Agglomeration Economies: A Caveat Emptor for Regional Scientists

The Impact of the Barnett Formula on the Scottish Economy: Endogenous Population and Variable Formula Proportions

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