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. …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

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 …

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 …

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance has uncovered important … questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed … differences in performance across parts of one economy sharing similar institutions? This paper suggests that two broad aspects of …

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict … performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at … superstructural effects of institutions on aggregate and average income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs). It finds …

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …