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This paper empirically analyzes the main microeconomic determinants of two forms of corruption supply, administrative … corruption and state capture, by Maghrebi firms. This study is based on a new database of nearly 600 Algerian, Moroccan and … Tunisian firms. I show that tax evasion is a major factor in the engagement of firms in administrative corruption. The latter …
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We estimate the effect of the child support grant on mothers' labour supply in South Africa. Identification is based on the use of specific samples, such as black mothers, aged 20 to 45, whose youngest child is aged within 2 years of the age eligibility cut-off, and unanticipated variation over...
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This paper empirically analyzes the main microeconomic determinants of different forms of corruption supply. Our study …' sales is a major factor of their involvement in administrative corruption. The latter increases with the part of the firm … strengthened by a failing enforcement of property and contract rights. Moreover, both forms of corruption help to compensate a loss …
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In this paper, we study the evolution of corruption patterns in 27 postcommunist countries during the period 1996 …-2012 using the Control of Corruption Index and the corruption category Markov transition probability matrix. This method allows … us to generate the long-run distribution of corruption among the post-communist countries. Our empirical findings suggest …
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. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc. …
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Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...
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. Overall, our findings suggest that the proclivity to corruption of the former Communist party members has been transmitted … through family and thus sustained over time, contributing to corruption decades after the demise of the Socialist bloc. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873598
In this paper, we study the evolution of corruption patterns in 27 post-communist countries during the period 1996 …-2012 using the Control of Corruption Index and the corruption category Markov transition probability matrix. This method allows … us to generate the long-run distribution of corruption among the post-communist countries. Our empirical findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232290
We investigated firm-level perceptions of corruption, based on two enterprise surveys conducted across eight countries … looks at whether managers in the agribusiness sector perceive corruption differently than do managers in other sectors. The … of ten specifications do respondents from agribusiness tend to perceive corruption as occurring less frequently than do …
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existing laws of one state to another. Bribery is a typical problem for developing countries as shown in the Corruption …). Corruption can have roots in socialist regimes as in recently established political stability instable economic situation may … lead to growth in crime. The main challenge within the scope of this project is to identify the relation between corruption …
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