The existence of ambiguity in the study of the impact of corruption on economic growth, namely the grease the wheel … hypothesis and sand the wheel hypothesis, trigger this research to look at the impact of corruption through another perspective …, i.e. income inequality. This study identifies the mutual influence between corruption and income inequality in Asian …

This paper investigates the relationship between political corruption and the informal-formal sector income gap. We … of municipal corruption. We first document the upward pressure corruption puts on the informal-formal income gap. We then … utilize a measure of mismanagement by governmental officials as an instrument for corruption to show that these results are …

This paper uses an encompassing framework developed by Murphy et al. (1991, 1993) to study corruption and how it … affects income distribution and growth. We find that (1) corruption affects income distribution in an inverted U-shaped way …, (2) corruption alone also explains a large proportion of the Gini differential across developing and industrial countries …

income but increased the income share from unidentified sources traditionally associated with corruption. These effects of …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …