policies and to study the problem of unemployment. These notes mean to provide an exhaustive introduction to the study of the …

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …

evasion and unemployment. This paper shows that the firm's decision to evade taxes also depends on trust in tax authorities …, and affects one of the most important macroeconomic variables: the unemployment rate. Also, the model is able to mimic the … and a reduction of tax evasion may decrease unemployment. …

debate: the link between underground employment and unemployment. While the literature is unanimous in considering … underground employment and unemployment as strongly connected and interdependent phenomena, the link between existing causality is … controversial. Two key results emerge from this analysis. The first shows that the unemployment affects (with positive sign) the …

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three … between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. Key assumptions are that … contribute to growth. Underground employment alleviates unemployment only if the monitoring rate is sufficiently low. …