provide a quantitative summary of the available evidence regarding the influence of labour market institutions on real wage …

characteristics of workers, changes in the institutions of the labour market, in skill-biased technological progress and increasing …

We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process … of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law … necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …

. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part …

literature also provides evidence of the long lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and decision making …

measurable skills. We conclude with a discussion of the role of regulations and institutions as one possible mechanism for these …

We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined … institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of the Great Recession, and those countries whose unemployment grew … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century …