employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector ….9-1.2% of Ukraine's GDP in 2003). -- wage ; wage differentials ; public sector ; corruption ; bribery ; Ukraine … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 …

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

individual choice of the sector is endogenous to wages, the authors recommend alternative econometric techniques for the public … is significant cross-group variation in the wage gap. The paper concludes that to eliminate the negative gap wages in the … public sector should be linked to the private sector wages at the regional level. -- Public sector …