TITLE:
Determinants of Productive Efficiency of Public Service: What Effect of the Interaction of Corruption Control and Average Wage?
AUTHORS:
Alastaire Sèna Alinsato, Calixe Bidossessi Alakonon
KEYWORDS:
Productive Efficiency, Public Service, Governance, DEA, WAEMU
JOURNAL NAME:
Theoretical Economics Letters,
Vol.11 No.6,
November
12,
2021
ABSTRACT: This paper seeks to analyze the determinants of the
civil service productive efficiency in West African Economic Monetary Union
(WAEMU) countries over the period 2003-2017. Using the two-stage Data
Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model, our results show that the average productive
efficiency of the public services studied is 87.4%. This suggests that there is
room for improvement in the level of output of the public services, all other
things being equal. We also found that the
average wage, the square of corruption control, and the interaction term
between corruption control and the average wage have a positive effect on
productive efficiency. These findings suggest that before getting improvement
in the productive efficiency of public service in the WAEMU region, countries
should reach a higher level of corruption control and a substantial level of
the average wage.