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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 …

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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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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...

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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 …

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Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang

Tanndal, Julia - 2016

This study estimates the impact of financial deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel econometric method of constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to...

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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality : A Panel Analysis

Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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International Differences in the Family Gap in Pay : The Role of Labor Market Institutions

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2007

Using microdata for 35 countries over the period 1985-1994-2002 we find that labor market institutions traditionally associated to more compressed wage structures are associated to a higher family gap. Our results indicate that these policies reduce the price effect of having children but...

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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy

Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the size and development of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777897

Remittances, Institutions and Economic Growth

Catrinescu, Natalia - 2007

There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased enormously over the last decade, academic and...

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