Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012 - This draft: 2012-11-29
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to an income loss. We exploit an unexpected 25% wage cut incurred in 2010 by all Romanian public sector employees, including the public education staff. We investigate a corruptible high-stake exam taking place shortly after the wage...