Starting from a conventional shift-share analysis of Norwegian industrial employment series for 1951-1982, the author attempts to establish the existence of a breakpoint in the shift series for counties subject to regional policy measures, by using recursive regression methods. Such a change having been found in the plots of trend and quadratic trend parameters, the counterfactual method is used to estimate the effects of regional policy, 1970–1982, for four counties.
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