exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … group by education, gender, and geographical location. -- Caste ; employment ; wage differentials ; public sector ; India …

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … regression ; India …

minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the … quota ; occupational choice ; skill ; caste ; India …

: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures …

. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after … points more likely to work in bureaucracy, and that positive selection on human capital can explain only 12-25 percent of … the campaign, or changes in perceptions of bureaucracy. …

's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the 'corruptibility' of bureaucrats in each case. Results …

effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support … and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia …