
Do Government Wage Cuts Close Budget Deficits? a Conceptual Framework for Developing Countries and Transition Economies »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 1996/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 1996
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451922554.001
ISBN: 9781451922554
Keywords: wages, wage, tax evasion, tax collectors, tax collector
Real wage declines have been common in the public sector in many countries over substantial periods of time. In several cases, such wage reductions have coincided with a decline in the efficiency of the public sect...