: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures … (EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Our main finding is that the relationship between bureaucratic independence and judiciary … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …

advantage, we argue that an efficient formal judiciary helps entrepreneurs without any ties to informal business networks …

active labor market policies. The paper provides an overview of reform patterns and tries to assess whether and to what …

reform trajectories in a diverse group of European countries that are characterised by a high share of temporary employment … two preceding decades - or based on dualisation or insider-outsider theory. The reform trajectories are characterised by …

reform are necessary in order to achieve common objectives across countries, and on the other provide indications of the … appropriate directions for reform in each case. …

contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …

gap for adult male dependent employees using two identical, nationally representative labor force surveys for Serbia - one …