Can governments in developing countries retain skilled health workers by raising public sector wages? The author … for government health workers. The author find that a ten percent increase in wages decreases annual attrition from the …

program. Wages of women in the private sector do not increase with experience or schooling. However, wages of men in the …

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 …