We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

whether policy effects vary across countries depending on the level of economic development and whether institutions have an … influence on economic outcomes. The paper lists of policies and institutions that could be used to quantify the effect of …

non-OECD countries. The findings suggest that the quality of institutions matters to a large extent for economic outcomes …

institutions. For a panel of OECD countries, we find that anticompetitive product market regulations are associated with lower MFP … of product market regulations on MFP may depend on the level of labour market regulations. Better institutions, a more … in labour market regulations, barriers to trade and investment and institutions (including corruption). …

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment …

and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and … a resource boom reinforces rent grabbing and civil conflict especially if institutions are bad, induces corruption …