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100 _aCornell, Agnes. Sunde and Anders
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245 _aMoney matters: The role of public sector wages in corruption prevention
260 _aPublic Administration
300 _a98(1), 2020: p.244-260
520 _aEconomic theory as well as conventional wisdom from corruption‐ridden countries suggest that low wages among public employees lead to corruption, but cross‐sectional empirical research has largely failed to confirm this relationship. In this article, we investigate the relationship between experiences of corruption and wage levels for public sector employees, utilizing both objective and expert survey data, with global coverage. The statistical analysis shows that higher wages, as compared to the average wage in the country, is associated with less corruption. There is also some support, but weaker, for the hypothesis that corruption increases when wages fall below subsistence levels.- Reproduced
650 _aEconomic theory, Wages, Public employees
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773 _aPublic Administration
906 _aCORRUPTION
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