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What is the role of institutions in economic performance? Neo-corporatist economists gave a clear answer to one specification of this question: namely the role of institutions in explaining unemployment in advanced industrial societies. They answered that economies with neo-corporatist institutions, in particular with strong, centralised systems of industrial relations, were more likely than other economies to produce low unemployment.
The author would like to thank Chuck Sabel, Michele Salvati, Fritz Scharpf, Peter Lange and Jonas Pontusson for comments which have materially improved the argument.
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Soskice, D. (1990). Reinterpreting Corporatism and Explaining Unemployment: Co-ordinated and Non-co-ordinated Market Economies. In: Brunetta, R., Dell’Aringa, C. (eds) Labour Relations and Economic Performance. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11562-4_7
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