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E-government, education quality, internet access in schools, and tax evasion

Nimer, Khalil; Uyar, Ali; Kuzey, Cemil; Schneider, Friedrich - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32

investigates whether education quality as captured by three proxies and internet connection in schools strengthens the negative … education did not. Finally, internet connection in schools was also found to reinforce the negative association between e … in shaping curricula, integrating taxation issues in curricula, and enabling more equitable and reliable internet access …

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Shadow economies around the world : size, causes, and consequences

Schneider, Friedrich; Enste, Dominik - 2000

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The size of the shadow economies of 145 countries all over the world : first results over the period 1999 to 2003

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2004

Using the DYMIMIC approach, estimates of the shadow economy in 145 developing, transition, developed OECD countries, South Pacific islands and still communist countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 2002/2003 in developing countries is...

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Shadow economies around the world : what do we know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?

Schneider, Friedrich - 2011

Estimations of the shadow economies for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing countries is 38.7%, in 28 transition...

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The Devil is in the Shadow : Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or Only Official Income and Official Productivity?

Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - 2007

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...

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Shadow Economies Around the World : New Results for 158 Countries Over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro - 2017

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...

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Sovereign Debt Markets in Light of the Shadow Economy

Markellos, Raphael N. - 2015

We investigate the controversial role of the informal sector in the economy of 64 countries between 2003 and 2007 by focusing for the first time on the impact it has on sovereign debt markets. In addition to a standard ordered Probit regression, we employ two nonparametric neural network...

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Size and Development of the Shadow Economies of 157 Countries Worldwide : Updated and New Measures from 1999 to 2013

Hassan, Mai - 2016

This paper is a first attempt to study the size and development of the shadow economies of 157 countries over 1999 to 2013. Using a MIMIC model, we find that higher tax and regulatory burden, unemployment and self-employment rates are drivers of the shadow economy, meaning that an increase of...

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Nonlinearity between the Shadow Economy and Level of Development

Wu, Dong - 2019

This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinear relationship between theshadow economy and level of development. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy sizeand GDP...

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