Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - 2021
The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage … increase corruption. These results are robust to a wide range of empirical model specifications, estimation methods, and …