This paper presents findings from analysis of a dataset of labour laws, based on the Centre for Business Research Labour Regulation Index (CBR-LRI), which has recently been extended to cover 117 countries and the period from 1970 to 2013. The dataset shows that laws regulating different forms of...

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...

The legal origins hypothesis is one of the most important and influential ideas to emerge in the social sciences in the past decade. However, the empirical base of the legal origins claim has always been contestable, as it largely consists of cross-sectional datasets which provide evidence on...