Creator

• Holmes, Thomas J.

Series

• Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)

Issue number

• 205

Date created

• 1996-09

Abstract

• This paper provides new evidence that state policies play a role in the location of industry. The paper classifies a state as pro-business or anti-business depending upon whether or not the state has a right-to-work law. The paper finds that, on average, there is a large abrupt increase in manufacturing activity when crossing a state border from an anti-business state into a pro-business state.

Subject (JEL)

• R38 - Production Analysis and Firm Location: Government Policy
• L52 - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
• L60 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General

Related information

• Published in: Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 106, No. 4, August 1998, pp. 667-705) https://doi.org/10.1086/250026.

Corporate Author

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department

Publisher

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Resource type

• Research Paper

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.205

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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• Staff Reports

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