places endowed with more amenities. In the crossroad between these factors, this paper investigates corruption as key element …. Results suggest the dual role of push and pull mechanisms at play, as high corruption incentivizes Italian skilled mobility to … destinations that, instead, exhibit lower corruption. Moreover, sensitivity of the prospective tertiary students to corruption …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an … objective measure of corruption: the number of public officials convicted in a state for crimes related to corruption. Second …

increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … impact of city council dissolution for mafia influence in Italy as prescribed by Decree Law 164/1991 in discouraging violence … the enforcement of the Law reduces violence and that the effect persists (at least) for two electoral rounds. The most …