Corruption and the Rate of Temptation : Do Low Wages in the Civil Service Cause Corruption? »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 1997/73
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451849424.001
ISBN: 9781451849424
Keywords: wage, wages, civil service, civil servants, civil service wages
This paper develops and tests two efficiency wage models of corruption in the civil service. Under fair wage models, civil service wages are an important determinant of corruption. Under shirking models, the level...