. -- public sector ; rents ; life satisfaction ; corruption ; judicial independence … rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and …/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective well …

rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g., pensions and staffing), and …/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective well … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and …

Institutions affect bureaucrats' possibilities to acquire rents; they determine the degree of accountability and … responsiveness of officials and of political control of the bureaucracy and, thereby, the size and distribution of rents in the … public sphere. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and nonmonetary fringe benefits, and bribes. We propose a …

Why is corruption-defined here as the misuse of public office for private gain-perceived to be more widespread in some … countries than others? Different theories associate cross-national variation in the extent of corruption with particular … analyzes which of various plausible determinants are significantly related to several indexes of "perceived corruption …

politicians may have to engage in political corruption and management. The presence of a well-informed electorate in a democratic … setting explains between one half and two thirds of the variance in the levels of governmental performance and corruption …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey … show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among … the general population. In contrast, perceptions about the effects of corruption correlate consistently among themselves …

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …