Voice or public sector management? An empirical investigation of determinants of public sector performance based on a survey of public officials

Abstract

Gurgur (2019) Voice or public sector management? An empirical investigation of determinants of public sector performance based on a survey of public officials,

Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis

“…, Kraay and Zoido-Lobatόn, 1999;Bai and Wei, 2000;Kaufmann, Mehrez and Gurgur, 2002). Recent studies have also stress the relevance of considering historical and geographic features of the countries as instrumental variables as they influence the outcome through their impact on the institutional and political environment25 .…”

Understanding the Micro-Foundations of Administrative Corruption in the Public Sector: Findings from a Systematic Literature Review

“…Feng and Johansson 2018). Increasing salaries has been shown to reduce corruptibility in an experimental setting (van Veldhuizen 2013) but empirical evidence remains inconclusive (D. Kaufmann, Mehrez, and Gurgur 2019;Meyer-Sahling, Mikkelsen, and Schuster 2018). This can partially be explained by negative self-selection effects and the crowding-out of intrinsic motivation related to pecuniary incentives (Navot et al 2016).…”

“…Furthermore, political agents exercise their authority formally and informally to render anti-corruption measures ineffective to reduce transparency and external accountability (but see the following section (5) on actual behavioral control) (Cohen 2013;Brierley 2020;Porter and Graycar 2016). While Ebinger, Veit, and Fromm (2019) find no significant relationship between staff politicization and corrupt behavior in senior staff, Meyer-Sahling and Mikkelsen (2016), D. Kaufmann, Mehrez, andGurgur (2019), andFigueroa (2021) present robust evidence that politicization is significantly associated with black corruption as a means to achieve political goals. Consequently, public managers' accountability to politicians is positively associated with corrupt behavior (Tambulasi 2009).…”

Impacts of work attitude of outsourcing services on food losses: evidence from rice harvest in China

“…If the endogeneity of work attitudes does not exist, the 2SLS regression need not be used because the OLS regression would provide consistent and more efficient estimations (Kaufmann et al, 2019). The endogeneity test indicates that it is necessary to address the endogeneity of work attitudes.…”