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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality : A Panel Analysis
Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777822
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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
Torgler, Benno - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the size and development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777897
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy …
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : A Structural Equation Model Approach
Buehn, Andreas - 2009
The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or … with two latent variables - extracts information on various dimensions of corruption and the shadow economy to contribute … and corruption. The results show that the shadow economy influences corruption more than corruption influences the shadow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159506
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Corruption and natural resource rents : evidence from quantile regression
Okada, Keisuke; Samreth, Sovannroeun - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 20, pp. 1490-1493
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132818
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven - 2012
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099692
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Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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Happiness and Growth the World Over : Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764241
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Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being
Graham, Carol - 2014
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039581