How the Legal Environment Affects the Structure of Employment

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

Luděk Kouba¹  Marek Litzman¹ 

[1] Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic;

关键词: labour market;    law;    lawyers;    education;    Corruption Perception Index;    doing business;   

DOI  :  10.11118/actaun201563062005

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The quality of the institutional environment is considered a crucial determinant of economic growth. Low quality of the formal institutional environment can slow down economic development via various mechanisms described in the literature. The present paper will analyse formal institutional factors leading to the structure of employment that Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991) found to be associated with lower rate of economic growth. They assumed that a high proportion of lawyers in the country may be associated with slower economic development. Thus, the aim of the paper is to examine some of the parameters of institutional environment that can lead to such a distribution. Results show that quality of law measured by the World Bank (Doing Business database) and the Corruption Perception Index obtained from Transparency International may have some explanatory abilities regarding the structure of employment.

【 授权许可】

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