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dc.contributor.authorLuechinger, Simonen
dc.contributor.authorMeier, Stephanen
dc.contributor.authorStutzer, Aloisen
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-23-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T09:13:23Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T09:13:23Z-
dc.date.issued2006-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/33615-
dc.description.abstractThe monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total of these rents: the difference in reported subjective well-being between bureaucrats and people working in the private sector. In a sample of 38 countries, we find large variations in the extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1964en
dc.subject.jelD72en
dc.subject.jelD73en
dc.subject.jelI31en
dc.subject.jelJ30en
dc.subject.jelJ45en
dc.subject.jelK42en
dc.subject.jelH11en
dc.subject.jelH83en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordpublic sectoren
dc.subject.keywordrentsen
dc.subject.keywordlife satisfactionen
dc.subject.keywordcorruptionen
dc.subject.keywordjudicial independenceen
dc.subject.stwÖffentliche Verwaltungen
dc.subject.stwBeamteen
dc.subject.stwRent Seekingen
dc.subject.stwKorruptionen
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwBürokratietheorieen
dc.subject.stwEuropaen
dc.subject.stwLateinamerikaen
dc.subject.stwLebenszufriedenheiten
dc.titleBureaucratic rents and life satisfaction-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn507804171en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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