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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - 2009

This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...

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Individual and structural influences on the entrepreneurial activities of academics

Bijedić, Teita; Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; … - 2016

contract incentives, wage satisfaction), (ii) institutions (e.g. technology transfer offices, patent exploitation agencies … support infrastructure for start-ups in German academic institutions, these services are little known amongst their staff …

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Wealth-income ratios in a small, late-industrializing, welfare-state economy: Sweden, 1810-2014

Waldenström, Daniel - 2015

smaller countries that were historically backward and developed a different set of political and economic institutions during … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …

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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...

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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael - 2009

control group, I develop an empirical strategy that disentangles the partial effects of institutions and of endowments on … income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact … mix up the effect of the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of access to trade and of …

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Institutional enforcement, labor-market rigidities, and economic performance

Calderón, César; Chong, Alberto; León, Gianmarco - 2006

institutions, and tests whether such labor rigidities are conducive to long-run growth. We find that non-enforceable labor …

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Is the world flat? Or do countries still matter?

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2006

This paper revisits the effects of a country's institutional framework on individual firms' behavior, in particular focusing on their propensity to comply with legal rules. The theoretical model presented here suggests that these effects may be of paramount significance-contrary to the recently...

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Policy volatility and growth

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2006

A growing body of recent macroeconomic evidence suggests that volatility is detrimental to economic growth. The channels through which volatility affects growth, however, are less clear; substantive evidence based on disaggregate data is almost non-existent. This paper offers a framework in...

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Does it matter how people speak?

Chong, Alberto - 2006

operation of formal and informal institutions. It also serves a less obvious function, a reassuring quality more closely related …

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Privatized firms, rule of law and labor outcomes in emerging markets

Chong, Alberto; León, Gianmarco - 2007

workers also increases. Convergence depends to some degree on the quality of the institutions, namely, the rule of law. Not …

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