Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective well-being … between bureaucrats and people working in the private sector. In a sample of 38 countries, we find large variations in the … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and …