Business Incentives

Calculating the Impact

The Bartik Benefit-Cost Model of Business Incentives allows the user to evaluate tax breaks provided by state and local governments to businesses to encourage local job growth. Users provide information on the incentives provided and the incented jobs, and the model then produces estimates of the effects of the program on jobs, on different types of income, and on the incomes of different income groups. Estimates are customized to a particular state and program/project start year.