Does Corruption Increase or Decrease Employment in Firms?

• Tác giả: Arlette Beltrán
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 174.8 Occupational ethics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 293942
• Chủ đề: 1. bribes; 2. corruption; 3. employment

Tóm tắt

This article uses representative data for firms for Latin American firms and show that corruption decreases employment in firms. This result is robust to changes in specification and also consistent with the use of an instrumental variables approach. Corruption appears to negatively impact the growth and wealth in a country, not by introducing labour distortion in firms, but by keeping them small.