This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …

While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and … households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between exposure to local corruption and mental health, as … Vietnam. After controlling for individual and regional characteristics, we find strong and consistent evidence that day …

public resources. -- corruption ; matched employer-employee panel data ; public-sector employment …

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence …

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem … is less tight, bureaucrats are less venal, or compensation for expropriation is ungenerous. -- corruption ; bureaucratic …

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … two latent variables - extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute to … corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow economy …

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the …' corruptibility but is not sufficient to eliminate the Tragedy of corruption that leads both firms and officials to earn less than in … the absence of corruption. …

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …