less corruption, more social welfare and education spending, more open markets, and better functioning government …

corruption. Numerous studies suggest a relationship between the design of civil service systems and corruption, but few studies … actually test this theoretical link. We hypothesize that corruption levels depend on the presence or absence of particular … bargaining rights; we also assess the impact of wages on corruption levels. We test these hypotheses using World Bank data from a …

The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …

If we accept that the concept of corruption is influenced by culture and personal values then, we should ask: 1) what … are the individual characteristics that shape corruption perception? 2) how important is the incidence of the country of … residence in determining it? and 3) is there a relationship between private and public perception of corruption? The database is …

The concept of corruption varies widely depending on societies and people. We expect that context influences on … corruption perception. Previous studies shed light on the incidence of individual characteristics on the perceived level of … corruption and show the effect of country of residence. In order to extend this previous research, the aim of this paper is to …

with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

Several cross-country studies have found that corruption is detrimental to economic growth, but the findings are not … universally robust. We utilize the economic freedom index to examine if corruption can facilitate growth by allowing entrepreneurs … corruption is growth enhancing when economic freedom is most limited but the beneficial impact of corruption decreases as …