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SUMMARY:PhD seminar - Laura Contreras Portela
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DESCRIPTION:Place-based industrial policies are widely used to attract inve
 stment and stimulate employment in targeted locations. Yet subsidized firms
  can expand without increasing local employment. I examine where the labor 
 supporting this expansion comes from\, using Colombia’s Free Economic Zon
 es (FEZs) and a novel georeferenced panel linking municipalities\, firms\, 
 and workers to the staggered rollout of zones between 2005 and 2018. I find
  that FEZs increase municipal informality by roughly five percentage points
  while leaving total employment unchanged. Firms entering the zones are ski
 ll-intensive and draw skilled workers from incumbent employers\, which rais
 e wages in response. Small\, less-productive firms contract or exit\, while
  less-educated workers become 6 percentage points more likely to be informa
 l. These patterns reveal a reallocation of workers across firms rather than
  an expansion of local employment. The findings show that a large informal 
 sector does not imply an elastic supply of the skills expanding firms deman
 d: when those skills are locally scarce\, industrial policy can expand targ
 eted firms while increasing informality and generating no net employment ga
 ins.\\n\\nContact: Anisha Ghosh - anisha.ghosh[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'inf
 ormations: https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/laura-contreras-p
 ortela-0
LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevar
 d Maurice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/laura-contreras-portela-0
CONTACT:Anisha Ghosh - anisha.ghosh[at]univ-amu.fr
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