present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

unemployment persistence. …

Spanish unemployment, focusing on demonstrating its long memory and generating macro-economic models with autoregressive … vectors in which the unemployment variable is presumed to be non-stationary and co-integrated. Its consideration in this … suppose, the same as Skalin and Teräsvirta (2002), a behaviour for unemployment which is locally non-stationary in a globally …

Measures aimed at reducing the tax burden on labour have been advocated to alleviate the EU unemployment problem. Most … of the analyses document a relationship between the unemployment rate and the tax burden on labour. Hence, it is not … possible to discern whether the effect on unemployment derives from labour demand, labour supply or through the wage formation …

This paper discusses trust and trust perceptions in infrastructure contracts and supporting institutions. We focus on … countries, including the role of regulatory institutions. …

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and … resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to … institutions? What specific aspects of institutions are responsible for economic performance? This paper suggests that two broad …