Purpose: This paper aims to examine how the “wage premium,” the percentage by which wages earned by skilled workers exceed those of unskilled workers, varies across industries characterized by different levels of competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach: A theoretical model employing...

Purpose: This paper aims to study how firms’ longitudinal and dynamic growth will be affected by their bribing decisions to address the controversies existing in the extant literature on the impacts of briberies. Design/methodology/approach: The authors acquired information from Enterprise...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the reasons and decision-making processes of heterogeneous firms’ bribery behavior, and how they will affect an aggregate economy’s development and corruption status. Design/methodology/approach: The authors build a dynamic model to study a...