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Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage

Peter A. Hall, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
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In this paper, the authors highlight the role of business in national economies and show that there is more than one path to economic success, and explain national differences in social and economic policy.
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What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows that there is more than one path to economic success.

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Perceived Job Quality: Autonomy and Job Security within a Multi-Level Framework

Ingrid Esser, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2012 - 
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between institutions of labour market and welfare states and two central aspects of job quality: autonomy and job security, and found that the power of workers and their skill specificity are important in explaining cross-country differences in autonomy.
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Related variety and economic development: a literature review

Koen Frenken
- 24 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: A review of 21 studies made clear that most studies find support for the initial hypothesis that related variety supports employment growth, though some studies suggest that the growth effects of related variety may be specific to knowledge-intensive sectors only as discussed by the authors.
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Actors and Institutions

Gregory Jackson
- 08 Apr 2010 - 
TL;DR: This article reviewed the relationship between actors and institutions within various strands of institutional theory, showing some emerging points of agreement among different social sciences disciplines regarding their co-generative or mutually constitutive nature.
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Work and pay in flexible and regulated labor markets: A generalized perspective on institutional evolution and inequality trends in Europe and the U.S.

Thomas A. DiPrete, +3 more
- 01 Jul 2006 - 
TL;DR: This paper argued that European institutions in fact have changed, and that institutional changes which were triggered by broader macroeconomic forces have affected the form as well as the size of inequality trends in Europe as a side effect of the wage stability preserved by rigid labor market institutions.
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Will Skills Save Us? Rethinking the Relationships between Vocational Education, Skills Development Policies, and Social Policy in South Africa.

Stephanie Allais
- 01 Sep 2012 - 
TL;DR: The authors examines experiences with skills development in South Africa to contribute to broader debates about "skills" and the relationships between vocational education and development, and demonstrates some of the weaknesses of so-called "market-led" vocational education.