Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205559 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
New Zealand Treasury Working Paper No. 04/19
Publisher: 
New Zealand Government, The Treasury, Wellington
Abstract: 
This paper reviews the literature on institutions and explores the ways in which institutions can influence economic growth, with a particular focus on how institutions affect the use that firms make of human capital to improve their productivity. It discusses the influence of underlying institutions, such as law and order and secure property rights, on the general environment within which the economic activities of production and exchange takes place. It also explores the influence of activity-specific institutions, such as labour market institutions, on firm decisions about resource use and innovation and through these on economic activity and economic growth.
Subjects: 
institutions
human capital
regulation
norms
firms
economic growth
New Zealand
JEL: 
D00
D20
J24
K00
L51
O40
P00
Z1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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