Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire …/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 …