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three regions of Russia to analyze the gender and generational differences in factors influencing motivation to work. Five …
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This paper investigates the relationship between locus of control and performance among Russian employees, using survey data collected at 28 workplaces in 2002 in Taganrog and at 47 workplaces in 2003 in Ekaterinburg. We develop a measure that allows us to categorize the Russian employees...
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Despite unanimous agreement in the existing literature that morale influences employee performance, no well-defined measure of morale exists. Our study develops a robust measure of morale and focuses on the factors that influence morale among Russian workers. Survey data were collected from...
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Why do Russians work without wages? This paper investigates the extent to which job satisfaction and attitude toward work in general may account for the observed behavior of Russian workers. To analyze the level and determinants of job satisfaction among Russian workers, this paper utilizes...
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also how these sectors were affected by changes in economic freedom and corruption. When we assess the role of regulation … and corruption on public investment, we find that improvements in economic freedom tend to be associated with decreases in … public investment, while reductions in corruption produce effects going in both directions. Similarly, we show that increases …
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We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client’s decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
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Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …
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-seeking and corruption? This question is answered by demonstrating that Suharto, the leader of Indonesia’s New Order government …-growth with equity political coalition in which corruption played a central role. …
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hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the rule of law, corruption, and accountability. These norms correlate …
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, transitional corruption and other institutional and political factors. The model is based on a survey on Bulgarian banks and a …, associated mainly with the inefficiency of the judicial system, corruption, state capture, uncertain property rights, etc. …
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