financial, legal, and corruption problems on firm size. Data are taken from a size-stratified survey of over 4,000 firms in 54 … countries.The questions sought to identify obstacles to firm performance and growth internationally. The World Business … Environment Survey is used to identify the level of financing, legal and corruption obstacles in each country.An attempt is made …

The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … 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 …