We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the … results. We find that the trust-growth relationship is less robust with respect to empirical specification and to countries in … compared with many other growth-regression variables. …

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … growth rates is consistent with the main implication of certain endogenous growth models, such as the AK model. …

in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the … existing cross-country empirical evidence on the effects of inequality on growth and the extent to which the poorest in society … benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

Does a country?s level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the …

. We challenge this view by arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the … economic growth of 15 judicial procedures. Employing a standard growth model, we find in a cross-section of 67 countries that … timeliness, writtenas opposed to oralprocedures, and the right to counsel have a positive effect on growth, whereas the number of …

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The …