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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?
Schettkat, Ronald - 2003
This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially … empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state institutions is not as clear-cut as the deregulationists' view suggests … welfare state institutions are manifold but the most important reason is the complexity of the impacts. There are many side …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262103
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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?
Schettkat, Ronald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially … empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state institutions is not as clear-cut as the deregulationists' view suggests … welfare state institutions are manifold but the most important reason is the complexity of the impacts. There are many side …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700914
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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274639
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Gender Discrimination and Common Property Resources
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2015
In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428834
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839291
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Unions, dynamism, and economic performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
worker voice institutions is discussed briefly in a final section. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278785
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
worker voice institutions is discussed briefly in a final section. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756378
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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524932
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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822639
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282162