Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 24,787
Cover Image
Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004
depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800634
Cover Image
Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction
Schor, Juliet - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800646
Cover Image
Size and Development of the Shadow Economy and of Do-it-Yourself Activities: The Case of Germany
Buhn, Andreas; Karmann, Alexander; Schneider, Friedrich - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007
burden whereas for DIY activities, the level of unemployment is the main factor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808593
Cover Image
MIMIC Models, Cointegration and Error Correction: An Application to the French Shadow Economy
Buehn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762169
Cover Image
A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001
income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … trends in the two labour markets, including the concentration of employment growth in services and in managerial and … professional occupations; growing wage inequality; and the downward trend in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650217
Cover Image
The not so dark side of trust: does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; D'Hernoncourt, Johanna - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2008
This paper studies the relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, on a cross-section of countries, both developed and developing, and finds that it is significantly negative. That relationship is robust to controlling for a large set of economic, policy, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146706
Cover Image
The not so dark side of trust: Does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; D'Hernoncourt, Johanna - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2012
This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of countries, both developed and developing. That relationship is robust to controlling for a large set of economic, policy, and institutional variables, to changing the estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321735
Cover Image
The not so dark side of trust: Does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?
D’Hernoncourt, Johanna; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 97-121
This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of countries, both developed and developing. That relationship is robust to controlling for a large set of economic, policy, and institutional variables, to changing the estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597451
Cover Image
Religion and the shadow economy
Heinemann, Friedrich; Schneider, Friedrich G. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards. This contribution focuses on religion's possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious markets are taken into account. These dimensions refer to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149351
Cover Image
The size and development of the shadow economy in Bangladesh: An empirical investigation
Siddiki, Jalal Uddin - School of Economics, Kingston University - 2013
The paper estimates the size of the shadow economy in Bangladesh by applying the multiple indicator multiple cause model to time series data from 1975-2010. The estimated size of the shadow economy ranges from 13.47% in 1984 to 37% in 2010. Taxes are one of the key drivers while monetization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949194