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In a public procurement setting, we discuss the desirability of completing contracts with state-contingent clauses providing for monetary compensations to the contractor when revenue shocks occur. Realized shocks are private information of the contractor and this creates agency costs of...
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The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Greece were used to compare bribery to 18 other moral issues. Respondents...
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The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Poland were used to compare bribery to 12 other moral issues. Respondents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349704
The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected acts. World Values Survey data for Romania were used to compare bribery to 18 other moral issues. Respondents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349777
The present study addresses the question, “How serious is bribery?” In order to arrive at an answer, it was necessary to compare the seriousness of bribery to that of other selected moral acts. World Values Survey data for the Philippines were used to compare bribery to 18 other moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349778
Despite decades of failed anti-corruption efforts, most government organizations operate as if additional compliance …-based efforts will curb corruption. This article offers an explanation for why many of the government ethics rules imposed on public … instead the adoption of values-based ethics programs and practices to reduce corruption. (This abstract is not in the original …
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for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. We find growing trends of vulnerable employment, particularly for youth cohorts …. Especially in Egypt and Tunisia, children of poorer and lesseducated parents start out in vulnerable jobs and are unlikely to …
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and 2012 in Egypt. The analysis compares the early employment outcomes of those who left school after the January 25th … 2011 revolution to that of those who graduated before 2011. Using recent data from the 2014 Survey of Young People in Egypt …
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This paper aims to study the evolution in the age composition of males' employment in the aftermath of the public sector downsizing in the 1990s -during the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Policies - and the new labor law in 2003. This answers the question of whether young (15-29) and...
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This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed …
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