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This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the labour market both theoretically and empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state...
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We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … growth rates is consistent with the main implication of certain endogenous growth models, such as the AK model. …
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …
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rather than slowdowns in GPD growth, although we find a positive relationship between first births and growth. Despite that …
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In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to …
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documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …
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The paper investigates the impact of ownership concentration on GDP growth, for a sample of 18 OECD countries over the … period 1980 to 2004. The econometric analysis shows that more concentrated ownership can speed up growth, for countries … regulation, the logic of financial markets discipline applies and dispersed ownership appears as more favorable for growth. Based …
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climate of employment relations and union effects on employment growth. …
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productivity growth, i.e. “bad times,” increase the political support for more labor market rigidity only where labor appropriates …
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