comprehensive, must include the value of the flow of services households derive from their dwellings, the so-called imputed rent …

results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti …-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage … private sector as an instrument for the public-private wage differential. Combining increases in public sector wages with …

-skilled labor, and, thus, analyzes its effects on the wage gap between the two groups. The results of this analysis show that there …-skilled workers. However, for the manufacturing and services sectors, instead of increasing the wage gap between skilled and unskilled … workers, the wage gap decreases. The results for the manufacturing sector appear to be driven by an increasing sophistication …

are better and average incomes are higher. Regional convergence in wage rates remains slow, but appears to be proceeding …