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...

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...

Estimations of the shadow economies for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over 1999 to 2005 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2004/05 in 96 developing countries is 36.7%, in 25 transition...

Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly qualified labour in 33 locations across Europe and the United States. We then correlate...

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...

The conventional approach to comparing tax progression (using local measures, global measures or dominance relations for first moment distribution functions) often lacks applicability to the real world: local measures of tax progression have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution...

Die Mehrwertsteuererhöhung und mögliche Belastungen der Bürger durch die Steuerfinanzierung von Sozialleistungen haben eine Diskussion über die Höhe der Steuerquote entfacht. Gibt es eine optimale Steuerquote? Welche Anforderungen werden an den Staat gestellt? Wie ist die deutsche...

Bei der Abgabenbelastung der Arbeitnehmereinkommen erreicht Deutschland im OECD-Vergleich eine Spitzenposition. Der Autor referiert die Ergebnisse einer aktuellen OECD-Studie und stellt die Problematik aus Sicht der Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (BDA) dar.