This study examined attitudes on the ethics of bribe taking in four European countries – France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany. Nineteen demographic variables (gender, age, marital status, etc.) were also examined, and most mean scores were found to be significantly different. Although most...

This study examines whether the influx of immigrants from countries outside the EU and OECD into Danish municipalities affected the amount of public spending between 1995 and 2001, a period marked by an unprecedented rise in the number of asylum applicants. Such an unexpected demographic change,...

The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...