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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...
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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe - the Role of Services
D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2021
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317613
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2021
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
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The Role of Independent Fiscal Policy Institutions
Calmfors, Lars - 2021
The paper analyses how independent fiscal watchdogs (fiscal policy councils) can strengthen the incentives for fiscal discipline. By increasing fiscal transparency they can raise the awareness of the long-run costs of current deficits and increase the reputational costs for governments of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316062
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861835
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The Gradual Transformation of Continental EuropeanLabor Markets: France and Germany Compared
Eichhorst, Werner - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor marketproblems such as low employment and high and persistent unemployment which can beexplained by labor market institutions that inhibit labor market adaptability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863225
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Entrepreneurial Entry : Which Institutions Matter?
Aidis, Ruta - 2009
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763926
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Plunging into the Sea : Ideological Change, Institutional Environments and Private Entrepreneurship in China
Yang, Jin - 2018
This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after 2002, when the Party revised its constitution and officially removed ideological discrimination against private entrepreneurs. Using six waves of a nationwide survey of privately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914902
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Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs
Engl, Florian - 2017
nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior in one domain affects behavior in another domain and whether it … whether, for only one game, there is an institution enforcing cooperation and vary also whether the institution is imposed … exogenously or arises endogenously through voting. Our results show that the presence of an institution in one game generally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955037
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Institutional Architecture for Financing Pan-Asian Infrastructure Connectivity
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2017
Asia, particularly its major economies has witnessed slower growth in recent years. To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks to recover from the falling growth, most regional economies need to rebalance their export-oriented (mostly to advanced economies)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956801