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This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data …-setting institutions. …
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literature also provides evidence of the long lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and decision making …
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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 …
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We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on … social norms in Denmark will mitigate the impact standard economic power measures have upon couples' time use. Further we … addition, we find some evidence that institutions matter as women in the US who are more likely to receive welfare benefits …
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We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
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US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …
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between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
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The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
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developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is recorded. The mechanism of information diffusion … institutions. On the other hand, if good institutions and good information about institutions do not come together, there is scope …
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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...
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