effects of labor downsizing on firms' technical efficiency, financial performance, and employee wages. We find that downsizing …

the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …

The temporal persistence and geographical prevalence of corruption in the world have provoked a vast amount of research … contributing factor to corruption. The assumption is that when salaries are low but expectations for service remains high …; hence, corruption arises. Accordingly, increased pay level is assumed to be effective in deterring corruption. Using China …

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how wages are being determined in China during the reform period. The paper …

interest payments. We find that the value of the political connections persisted after the Anti-Corruption Campaign of 2012. It … value of connections in the private sector increased after the Anti-Corruption Campaign because they became a less risky … alternative to corruption. We also show that connected firms do not perform better …

corruption, whereas poor remuneration can fuel corruption and discontent among civil servants.Grappling to develop a well …