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Beyond a ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ Approach in Central and Eastern Europe : Some Lessons from Ukraine
Williams, Colin - 2015
Ukraine used capitalist and non-capitalist economic practices in their coping tactics. Findings – This reveals not only the … limited use of capitalist practices in the everyday coping tactics of households in Ukraine but also how an array of non … up the future of post-Soviet Ukraine to other possible trajectories than simply some variety of capitalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010308
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Work Organization in Post-Socialist Societies
Williams, Colin - 2015
This paper evaluates critically the meta-narrative that capitalism is becoming more powerful, expansive, hegemonic and totalising as it stretches its tentacles ever wider across the globe and penetrates deeper into each and every corner of daily life. Reviewing the ways in which an emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009540
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Surviving Post-Socialism : Coping Practices in East-Central Europe
Williams, Colin - 2015
This paper evaluates the coping practices adopted by households in East-Central Europe following the collapse of the socialist bloc. Drawing upon the New Democracies Barometer (NDB) survey, it is here revealed that although a common assumption is that post-socialist societies have undergone a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009546
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The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy in Ukraine and other Central and Eastern European countries
Cherviakova, Valentyna; Cherviakova, Tetiana - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 7-30
they are related, in Ukraine in comparison with other Central and Eastern European countries. A correlation … of the weak correlation between levels of corruption and the shadow economy in Ukraine were identified. The main … corruption and non-corruption factors of Ukraine’s econo- my shadowing were determined. It was concluded that policy and measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419309
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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : revised estimates for 120 countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Bühn, Andreas - 2009 - Rev.
Estimations of the shadow economies for 120 countries, including developing, Eastern Europe and Central Asian and high income OECD countries over 1999 to 2006 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2004/05 in 76 developing countries is 35.5%, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939675
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : Revised Estimates for 120 Countries
Schneider, Friedrich - 2011
Estimations of the shadow economies for 120 countries, including developing, Eastern Europe and Central Asian and high income OECD countries over 1999 to 2006 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2004/05 in 76 developing countries is 35.5%, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132156
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Measuring Underground (Unobserved, Non-Observed, Unrecorded) Economies in Transition Countries : Can We Trust GDP?
Feige, Edgar L. - 2016
This paper compiles alternative estimates of underground economies in twenty five transition countries during the transition decade and finds a disturbing lack of convergence between them, calling into question the reliability of GDP figures (which in varying degrees now include non-transparent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989354
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317397
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of official GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317424
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Measuring Underground (Unobserved, Non-Observed, Unrecorded) Economies in Transition Countries : Can We Trust GDP?
Feige, Edgar L.; Urban, Ivica - 2008
This paper compiles alternative estimates of underground economies in twenty five transition countries during the transition decade and finds a disturbing lack of convergence between them, calling into question the reliability of GDP figures (which in varying degrees now include non-transparent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217175