There is evidence-linking inequality to negative health outcomes and to a loss of trust in public institutions. Relevant causation runs both ways because institutional weakness makes it more difficult to redress persistent inequalities. In the period of dominance of neoliberal policies, the...

Standard economic theory sees labour law as an exogenous interference with market relations and predicts mostly negative impacts on employment and productivity. We argue for a more nuanced theoretical position: labour law is, at least in part, endogenous, with both the production and the...