The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The …-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage … inequality. In countries where public sector wages are highly unequal, however, raising the wages of government employees could …

, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001 … relative to high-paying abstract jobs. However, cohort effects also underpin falling wages for post-1980 cohorts across all …

We investigate the cyclicality of real wages and income using individual data for the UK over the 1991-2008 period. By … recessions than in expansions for top-incomes. We also show that real wages and income are roughly a cyclical for low wage and …