Il lavoro irregolare in Italia: un'analisi panel regionale

This empirical paper investigates two important and controversial economic relationship: the link between underground employment and unemployment, and the connection among underground economy and local factors. The key results of this analysis are two. The first: the causality relationship between underground employment and unemployment is bidirectional and asymmetric. The second: the local and unobservable variables play an instrumental role in explaining the different underground activity rates recorded in the Italian regions.