The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of the segments of the labour market such as unemployment, employment, self-employment and activity in the hidden economy. The novelty of our approach is the theoretical...

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...

Introduction / Christopher Bajada and Friedrich Schneider -- Taxpayer behaviour and motivations -- Illegal, immoral, fattening or what? : How deterrence and responsive regulation shape tax moral / Lars P. Feld and Bruno S. Frey -- Explaining taxpayer non-compliance through reference to taxpayer...