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Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...
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Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries’ public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no “objective” measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156444
To evaluate how undeclared work is being tackled in Croatia this paper reports an e-survey and in-depth interviews with … key stakeholders in Croatia. It is revealed that, compared with the European Economic Area countries, Croatia has a weak … develop a single body to better coordinate actions to tackle the undeclared economy in Croatia and for a shift towards an …
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many others are non-compliant). Reporting 2,000 face-to-face interviews conducted in Croatia in 2015, only a weak and …
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Undeclared work has deep roots in Croatia. One in eleven declare to have done some fully undeclared work. Six out of … in Croatia. An alternative perspective, called the social actor approach, focuses upon the changing values and beliefs …, and the modernising of formal institutions. It seems to have stronger empirical support in Croatia. The Croatian …
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reported from 1,000 face-to-face interviews conducted in Croatia during 2013. Logistic regression analysis reveals no …
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being tackled, in the EU acceding country of Croatia . Croatia has been classified by the World Bank as a ‘high income … character of undeclared work in Croatia; to examine how the fight against undeclared work is organised; and to review relevant … policy approaches and measures adopted. Throughout the report, the situation in Croatia is compared with the EU27 wherever …
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This study uses a large firm-level data set covering more than 80 countries to explore the effects of firm-size, city-size, and government-size on perceived and experienced corruption. Four points summarize our main findings, which seem instructive and new. First, there is a broad structural...
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Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...
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