The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and … correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy …

We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts … investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the investor, using the threat of expropriation to demand a lower final …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for … in Turkey. -- returns to education ; Mincer equation ; gender ; Palestine ; Turkey …

and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …

The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU …-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased …. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its unexplained component) was particularly high in the upper part …

. If the online environment keeps gaining in importance in higher education, the gender gap in teaching evaluations that I …

This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19 …. Despite the fact that neither students' grades nor self-study hours are affected by the instructor's gender, we find that …' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching …

We analyze the link between the presence of female managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap, looking … gender wage inequality is associated with higher shares of female workers, but not female managers. …

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … cast doubt on a general, global relationship between gender and corruption. …