This report presents estimates of the size of the shadow economy in Moldova and Romania during the years 2015-2016. The estimates are based on surveys of entrepreneurs in both countries, following the method of Putniņš and Sauka (2015). The components of the shadow economy captured by this...

The recent increase in the minimum wage in Romania in early May 2016 represented a popular topic at the national level, which indicated that aggressive increases in the minimum wage could create a competitiveness problem in the context of a relatively high level of informal economic activities....