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Secrets in Asset Purchases : Estimating the Unofficial Incomes of Officials

Deng, Yongheng; Wei, Shang-jin; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Rongjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …

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Does Increased Civil Service Pay Deter Corruption? : Evidence from China

Gong, Ting; Wu, Alfred M. - 2012

The temporal persistence and geographical prevalence of corruption in the world have provoked a vast amount of research … contributing factor to corruption. The assumption is that when salaries are low but expectations for service remains high …; hence, corruption arises. Accordingly, increased pay level is assumed to be effective in deterring corruption. Using China …

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Corruption and the Rate of Temptation : Do Low Wages in the Civil Service Cause Corruption?

International Monetary Fund - 1997

, civil service wages are an important determinant of corruption. Under shirking models, the level of wages is of secondary …This paper develops and tests two efficiency wage models of corruption in the civil service. Under fair wage models … importance, as potential bribes dwarf wage income. The empirical evidence points to a negative relationship between corruption …

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The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600-1850)

Chambru, Cédric; Maneuvrier-Hervieu, Paul - 2021

This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …

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Wage mobility in Israel : the effect of sectoral concentration

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2009

Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...

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Gender gaps across the earnings distribution in Britain: are women bossy enough?

Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2009

This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of...

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