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prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that …
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Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption’s predominantly negative effects have arisen to …’s aim to provide a reassessment and a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and its …
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This paper considers corruption in higher education in Ukraine as reflected in the national media, including such … aspects as corruption in admissions to higher education institutions and corruption in administering the newly introduced … standardized test. The major focus is on the opinions of the leading figures of the education reform on corruption in education …
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In this paper my endeavor is to give you an idea about the upshot of a recessionary phase on the intermediation activity which is required for the survival of the informal fragment of the society. Informal part of the economy covers a large chunk of the total economic activities in any stylized...
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This paper shows that longer trade times are associated with higher levels of trade-related corruption, consistent with …” to possibly corrupt customs officials. This finding is robust to the use of corruption measures based on perceptions and … border procedures and rampant corruption acts as a significant drag on international trade, in line with the model …
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This paper investigates the effect of corruption on trade openness in low-income and high-income countries. The results … suggest corruption is anti-labor, since it reduces trade in low-income countries and increases trade in high-income countries. …
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If corrupt bureaucrats target registered firms, then corruption may discourage registration. Using data from a survey … of 4,801 microenterprises in Zambia, this paper looks at whether corruption is a more or less serious problem for … about corruption than unregistered firms. This suggests that remaining informal and out-of-sight might reduce the burden of …
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This paper develops a model of determination of unionized wage in the presence of both collective bargaining and efficiency wage. The efficiency of each worker is positively related to both the wage and the unemployment rate in the economy. The unionized wage is greater than the efficiency wage....
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The paper presents a theoretical model with bureaucratic corruption where bribe income can leak out of an economy. In … for entrepreneurship by maximizing the welfare of the economy. We show that the corruption persists at the equilibrium … in low prosperity economies the control of leakage may induce higher level of corruption, while the opposite is true in …
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This is a note on corruption and underground economy in a Kaldor-type model of the business cycle. It appears that when …
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