investigate how unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … have experienced a mild increase, other countries have had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful …

institutions will have to start technical and professional education programs. Several new educational institutions will have to be …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions … elections. These results support the view that social capital complements democratic institutions such as elections. …

successful in substituting its fiscal and legal institutions for those of the medieval seigneurial regime within an area of the … themselves with national, as opposed to local, institutions. We also show that regions inside the CGF that affiliated with …

social protections or better regulation. I ask three questions and attempt a conceptual framework for institutions and their …-outsiders, and to the emergence of social protections. I propose a typology of place, work, and work-place institutions that mitigate …

Economists have recognized that “institutions matter” and the renewal of Institutional Economics has gained a large … scientific authority, but institutions, as unit of analysis, stay a concept not understood on all its dimensions. Recently, the … article, we adopt the “Resourced-Based View” approach to show that some kinds of institutions can theoretically be considered …

Emerging consensuses among growth economists view good institutions as the key determinant of improving economic growth …. This study examines weather institutions measures, such as more transparent, accountable government, rule of law, sound …. The findings of this study indicate long run relationships between institutions and economic growth. However, on the …

institutions and policies, like common defense and external policy, military organization, representative federal bodies like … their economic institutions and policies: Common currency, federal budget and federal revenues. We address in more detail as …