Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35966
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4415
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test this argument by examining how establishment-level employment responses to economic shocks are affected by establishment ownership. We find evidence hat some types of local ownership do insulate regions from economic shocks, although the clearest benefits do not come from small, independent businesses, but instead from corporate headquarters and, to a lesser extent, from small, locally-owned chains.
Subjects: 
Local ownership
employment shocks
employment stability
JEL: 
R11
R38
J23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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