Nooruddin, Irfan; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2020
Effect of the IMF on public wages and salaries in democracies and non-democracies. In developing countries, governments … often face strategic incentives to devote public expenditures to public wages and salaries, and such expenditures can play a … (IMF) programs of economic reform on public wages and salaries. We show that their effect is contingent on the role a …