Fiscal zoning and sales taxes: Do higher sales taxes lead to more retailing and less manufacturing?

National Tax Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-50

  Burnes, Daria ^a   Neumark, David ^b,c,d   White, Michelle J ^c,e,f  

^a CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d IZA   (Germany)

^e Department of Economics   (United States)

^f Center for AI and Institutions at CKGSB   (China)

Author keywords

Employment; Fiscal zoning; Retail employment; Sales tax; Zoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905923896     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2014.1.01     Document Type: Article

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