Unemployment, institutions, and reform complementarities: Re-assessing the aggregate evidence for OECD countries

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-59

  Bassanini, Andrea ^a,b   Duval, Romain ^b  

^a OECD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PANTHÉON ASSAS   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregate unemployment; Institutions; Reform complementarities

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MODELING; OECD; REFORM PROCESS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 66449134512     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grp004     Document Type: Article

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