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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?
Schettkat, Ronald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially … empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state institutions is not as clear-cut as the deregulationists' view suggests … welfare state institutions are manifold but the most important reason is the complexity of the impacts. There are many side …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700914
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839291
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
worker voice institutions is discussed briefly in a final section. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756378
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822639
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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359868
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Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK
Clark, Ken; Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine changes in migration to the UK in the period leading up to the Great Recession and in its immediate aftermath. In so doing, we pay particular attention to the changing countries of origin of recent migration flows to the UK, especially in relation to migration from other parts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959839
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The Right Amount of Trust
Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015483
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China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703201
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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703831
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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?
Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
-based institutions are to flourish, they must add value and permit companies to perform at levels similar to those obtained under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822089