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Pipes, taps and vendors: An integrated water management approach

Meran, Georg; Siehlow, Markus; von Hirschhausen, … - 2020

all water users need to be connected to a centralized, pipeline infrastructure, and the non-connected households should be …This paper applies a microeconomic-based stylized model to identify the optimal modal split of water supply … infrastructure in regions of the Global South against the background of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 6. We assume a …

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The shadow economy in industrial countries : reducing the size of the shadow economy requires reducing its attractiveness while improving official institutions

Enste, Dominik - 2015

The shadow (underground) economy plays a major role in many countries. People evade taxes and regulations by working in the shadow economy or by employing people illegally. On the one hand, this unregulated economic activity can result in reduced tax revenue and public goods and services, lower...

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Immigration and the informal laor market

Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Farré, Lídia - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Using regional variation for the Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly correlated to the share of unregistered employment, a...

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The formal-informal economy dualism in a retrospective of economic thought since the 1940s

Clement, Christine - 2015

Central to the scientific debate about the 'informal sector' and the validity of the concept used to be a twofold challenge. The crux laid not only in the objective to explain the widely visible persistence of the informal economy in developing countries, but also in the identification of its...

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Tackling unregistered employment in European regions : towards a variegated policy approach

Williams, Colin C. - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 12 (2021) 2, pp. 104-122

To tackle participation in unregistered employment, the conventional policy approach has been to deter such work by increasing the penalties and risk of detection. Recently, an alternative preventative approach has emerged that tackles participation in unregistered employment by improving...

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Improving young women's working conditions in Tanzania's urban food vending sector

Mhando, Nandera Ernest; Mramba, Nasibu Rajabu - 2021

In this paper, we investigate the working conditions of the young women working as assistants in the food vending sector in Tanzania using interviews and focus group discussions which are supplemented with quantitative survey. Data were collected in the municipalities of Nyamagana and Ilemela in...

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Exploring legal and political-institutional determinants of the informal economy of Pakistan

Hayat, Rizwana; Rashid, Abdul - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-18

In this paper, the size of the informal economy of Pakistan is determined by including the legal and political-institutional variables as determinants. By using the MIMIC model average estimate for the informal economy of Pakistan is 37.75 percent from 1995 to 2017. The study tries to explore...

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Entrepreneurship in the shadows : wealth constraints and government policy

Tumen, Semih - 2016

I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...

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Tackling the informal economy in the European Union : a social actor approach

Williams, Colin C.; Kayaoglu, Aysegul - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 133-147

In recent years, participants in the informal economy have started to be viewed less as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the pay-off is greater than the expected cost of being caught and punished, and more as social actors who engage when their tax morale (i.e.,...

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Explaining and tackling the shadow economy in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania : a tax morale approach

Williams, Colin C.; Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra - In: Baltic journal of economics 15 (2015) 2, pp. 81-98

To explain the shadow economy in the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, this paper evaluates the relationship between the shadow economy and tax morale. Viewing tax morale as a measure of the symmetry between the codified laws and regulations of formal institutions (state morality)...

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