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The need to balance austerity with growth policies has put government efficiency high on the economic policy agenda in Europe. Administrative reforms which boost the efficiency of the administration can alleviate the trade-off between consolidation and public service provision. Against such...
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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. Kleptocratic policies are more likely when foreign aid and rents from natural resources provide rulers with substantial resources …
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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 …
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corruption of their subordinates as a byproduct of their efforts to implement their preferences using tax revenue. Within this …
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Using firm-level data from more than 39,000 firms in 111 economies, this paper tests the hypothesis that corruption … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …
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