The global recession is likely to results in higher structural unemployment for some time in many OECD countries. This … paper assesses how the shock to aggregate unemployment as a result of the economic crisis may be transmitted to structural … unemployment through hysteresis effects that occur through the rise in long-term unemployment. The estimated increase in structural …

This paper analyses the determinants of structural unemployment rates in a two-stage approach. First, time … drivers of structural unemployment. Consistent with earlier studies, the level of product market regulation, union density and … the unemployment benefit replacement rate also play an important role in explaining changes in the NAIRU although there is …

previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A …

This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the … and institutions affect employment not only via their impact on aggregate unemployment but also through their effects on … specific interactions across policies and institutions are found to be particularly robust, notably between unemployment …

inadvertently lead to increased income inequality and poverty. This paper focuses on the impact of institutions and redistributive … equity has taken place in OECD countries, notably in the 1990s. During this period, reductions of unemployment have been …- 2000 fails to detect any robust relationship between labour market institutions/policies and inequality as measured by the …

We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional … survey data on fishing activities, we find that rules of both institutions have a statistically significant but small impact … fully assess the effectiveness of, and interactions between, the two institutions. …

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

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

’ persistent characteristics, such as their institutions. Among our findings are that macroeconomic policies affect development …

After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … importance of institutions for development. Other authors maintain that the type of constraints that the recent theoretical …