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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...
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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women were interviewed to assess their knowledge about...
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Using the multiple indicator-multiple cause (MIMIC) approach, this paper generates a novel global database by estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP...
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This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple indicators multiple causes model (MIMIC) was developed for the estimation of levels of informal economy in 15 “Old” European Union Member States’ agricultural sectors for...
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Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
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Tax enforcement can be prohibitively costly when market transactions and participants are difficult to observe. Evasion … among market participants may reduce tax revenue and provide certain types of suppliers an undue competitive advantage … this paper, we show that an upper bound on pre-enforcement tax compliance can be obtained using market data on pre- and …
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With (automatic) exchange of tax information among countries now common, tax evaders have had to find new ways to hide … probability that their tax evasion is detected through information exchange. Using data on cross-border bank deposits, we find … that deposits in tax havens increase after a country starts offering a citizenship-by-investment program, providing …
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show that taxation of rents may also increase utility of the current generation provided tax revenues are earmarked to … reduce wage taxes. In particular, a shift in the tax mix may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement when the initially … prevailing tax mix is sufficiently skewed towards wage taxation …
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Tax legislation, fiscal authorities, and tax courts create tax uncertainty by frequent tax reforms and various … different interpretations of the tax law. Moreover, investors generate model-specific tax uncertainty by using simplified models … that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a …
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This paper investigates how parametric reform in a pay-as-you-go pension system with a tax benefit link affects … prime-age workers in the presence of a tax benefit link, thereby creating a policy trade-off in stimulating aggregate labor … how it depends on the behavioral supply elasticities on the extensive and intensive margins and the effective tax rates …
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