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Explaining the Shadow Economy in Europe : Size, Causes and Policy Options
Kelmanson, Ben - 2020
This paper examines the drivers, and reestimates the size of shadow economies in Europe, with a focus on the emerging … economies, and recommends policies to increase formality. The size of shadow economies declined across Europe in recent years … but remains significant, especially in Eastern Europe. In the emerging European economies, the key determinants of shadow …
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Consumers’ Motives for Buying Goods and Services on an Off-the-Books Basis
Williams, Colin - 2015
by discussing the implications for tackling Europe's cash-in-hand consumer culture …
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Tackling self-employment in the informal sector in Europe : evaluating trust-building strategies
Williams, Colin C.; Windebank, Jan - In: Fulbright review of economics and policy 1 (2021) 1, pp. 79-96
Europe. …
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New COVID-related results for estimating the shadow economy in the global economy in 2021 and 2022
Schneider, Friedrich - In: International economics and economic policy 19 (2022) 2, pp. 299-313
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Revisiting the undeclared service economy as a dual labour market : lessons from a 2019 Eurobarometer survey
Williams, Colin C.; Kayaoglu, Aysegul - In: The service industries journal 43 (2023) 13/14, pp. 940-961
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Bureaucracy, underground activities, and fluctuations
Soldatos, Gerasimos Th. - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 2 (2014)
This is a note on corruption and underground economy in a Kaldor-type model of the business cycle. It appears that when the economy is booming and underground activities seek to enter the official economy, bureaucrats have the upper hand but until underground businesses cannot tolerate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308143
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Guest workers in the underground economy
Djajić, Slobodan; Mesnard, Alice - 2013
Guest-worker programs have been providing rapidly growing economies with millions of temporary foreign workers over the last couple of decades. With the duration of stay strictly limited by program rules in most of the host countries and wages paid to guest workers often set at sub-market...
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A fuzzy logic approach to estimate the import of smuggling in Iran
Pourkazemi, Mohammad Hossein; Sherafat, Mohammad Naser; … - In: Iranian economic review : journal of University of Tehran 17 (2013) 2, pp. 107-129
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A matching model of endogenous growth and underground firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - 2012
A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector and human capital. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of the underground sector, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and...
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Modeling Iran's underground economy : a fuzzy logic approach
Pourkazemi, Mohammad Hossien; Sherafat, Mohammad Naser; … - In: Iranian economic review : journal of University of Tehran 19 (2015) 1, pp. 91-106
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