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The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The …-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage … inequality. In countries where public sector wages are highly unequal, however, raising the wages of government employees could …

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Over the last two decades, Mexico has experienced macroeconomic stability, an open trade regime, and substantial progress in education. Yet average workers' earnings have stagnated, and earnings of those with higher schooling have fallen, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the...

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