This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on unemployment in OECD countries over the past decades … institutions are found to be particularly robust, notably between unemployment benefits and public spending on active labour market …. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross …

land. We show that: (i) lower discount rates and stronger institutions decrease deforestation; (ii) depreciations in the …) paradoxically, better institutions may exacerbate the deleterious impact of depreciations in developing countries. These hypotheses …

analyses of Williamson and Granovetter, North's definition of institutions as "rules of the game" allows him to conceive of … institutions as the institutional foundations of the market and therefore as explanatory principles of historical dynamics. …

After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … importance of institutions for development. Other authors maintain that the type of constraints that the recent theoretical …

This paper discusses links between policy settings, institutions and economic growth in OECD countries on the basis of …

There is no or limited consensus on the quantitative impact of institutions on unemployment, which has led some to … question the case for structural reforms. Recent studies suggest also that institutions interact with each other and cannot be … unemployment and assess its robustness using a large battery of robustness checks. We show that, although the impact of each …

The objective of this paper is to assess the links between institutions and quality of life, within Nussbaum …