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How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Regions? A Comparative Analysis of the EU and ASEAN
Jetin, Bruno - 2021
left behind and the potential for the contagion to return remains high. As advanced regional blocs, the EU and ASEAN have a … that they are at least making national measures more effective. This paper seeks to determine whether the EU and ASEAN have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238678
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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy
Schneider, Friedrich; 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 level and changes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294508
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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294540
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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: A panel analysis
Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007
support that its increase leads to a smaller shadow economy. Moreover, an increase in tax morale reduces the size of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294548
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Shadow economies around the world: what do we know?
Schneider, Friedrich; Klinglmair, Robert - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294576
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Does Tax Evation Affect Unemployment and Educational Choice?
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2003
While examining the macroeconomic effects of government tax and punishment policies, this paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in ability, and the choice of education is determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321585
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Wages, Unemployment, and the Underground Economy
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001
) reduces the size of the informal sector and increases the size of the formal sector, (ii) decreases real producer wages in … higher audit rate (i) reduces the size of the informal sector relative to the size of the formal sector, and (ii) has an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321826
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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004
The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294504
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Does the shadow economy raise observed aggregate efficiency? A cross-country comparison
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich G.; … - 2006
We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294534
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Estimating the underground economy by using MIMIC models: A response to T. Breusch's critique
Dell’Anno, Roberto; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
. Breusch’s paper highlights the different procedures and hypotheses about the estimation of the size and development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294581