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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
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a model in which human capital is allocated to three activities: production, tax collection (bureaucracy), and public … bureaucracy and public education. Consequently, human capital has a weak effect on production, even when human capital is …
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We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …
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The destructive role of institutional quality such as corruption has been considered an important factor for economic …. This research examines the institutional role in controlling corruption within the preview of CO2 emissions-economic growth … nexus for the European Union. The study evaluates the moderating impact of corruption on the relationship between CO2 …
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a model in which human capital is allocated to three activities: production, tax collection (bureaucracy), and public … bureaucracy and public education. Consequently, human capital has a weak effect on production, even when human capital is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255048
We argue that several easily identifiable structural features constitute the key ingredients of effective state bureaucracies and should help to predict ratings of bureaucratic performance: competitive salaries, internal promotion and career stability, and meritocratic recruitment. We collect a...
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industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …
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The existence of ambiguity in the study of the impact of corruption on economic growth, namely the grease the wheel … hypothesis and sand the wheel hypothesis, trigger this research to look at the impact of corruption through another perspective …, i.e. income inequality. This study identifies the mutual influence between corruption and income inequality in Asian …
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Although corruption has attracted researchers' attention for more than 30 years, it remains one of the most significant … political challenges all countries face. Even though corruption measures have improved, they lack reliability and clarity. Two … aspects of corruption are examined in this paper: a) its measurement and b) its effects on the economic performance of 83 …
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The existence of ambiguity in the study of the impact of corruption on economic growth, namely the grease the wheel … hypothesis and sand the wheel hypothesis, trigger this research to look at the impact of corruption through another perspective …, i.e. income inequality. This study identifies the mutual influence between corruption and income inequality in Asian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930584