Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - Weltbankgruppe - 2021
The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …