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Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data

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  • Arif, Imran

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A growing strand of literature relates pro-market institutions to business and overall employment creation. However, the effects of pro-market institutions on industry-specific employment creation still need to be better understood. Employment creation in some industries may be more sensitive to pro-market institutions. Moreover, if these industries employ a large proportion of the population, the role of local-level institutions becomes more critical for boosting employment creation across industries. Therefore, we disentangle the effects of local-level pro-market institutions on employment creation across nine major industries by using 5-year balanced panel data of 374 US metropolitan areas from 1972 to 2017. Our fixed-effects results indicate that pro-market institutions boost employment creation only in the manufacturing, retail, and construction sectors. Furthermore, our findings reveal that local public policies can benefit or harm local employment creation, depending on the concentration of industries in the area.

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  • Arif, Imran, 2023. "Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 19(6), pages 868-892, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jinsec:v:19:y:2023:i:6:p:868-892_10
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