causal factors of the shadow economy as well as on a comparison of the size of the shadow economy using different estimation …This survey presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses and … the estimation results. The purpose of the survey is threefold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate …

cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated … with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … quite well for properties of Japanese size-distribution data, with a model-implied TFP of about 83% of the U.S. Distortions …

that the frequency of episodes of zero net employment changes is inversely related to plant size. We develop and estimate a … econometric evidence supports the existence of purely fixed components, unrelated to plant size. As a result, the range of …

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’s underground economy, and the … that are under-reported. From this estimate, we calculate the relative size of the underground economy in Quebec. We use … Lacroix (2009) using very different estimation methods and data. …

A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less …

Using the currency demand and DYMIMIC approaches estimates are presented about the size of the shadow economy in 22 … Transition and 21 OECD countries. Over 2001/2002 in 21 OECD countries is the average size of the shadow economy (in percent of … official GDP) 16.7% of "official" GDP and of 22 Transition countries 38.0%. The average size of the shadow economy labor force …

Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and … OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in … security contributions combined with rising state regulatory activities are the driving forces for the growth and size of the …