This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

This paper looks at public and private sector wages interactions since the 1960s in the euro area, euro area countries … public and private sector wages over the business cycle; this finding is robust across methods and measures of wages and … quite general across countries. Second, we show evidence of long-run relationships between public and private sector wages …