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Ausmaß und Auswirkungen der Schattenwirtschaft – Ergebnisse der Sonderfragen des ifo World Economic Survey
Boumans, Dorine; Schneider, Friedrich - In: ifo Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 24, pp. 90-95
Die WES-Sonderfragen für das vierte Quartal 2019 befassen sich mit dem Ausmaß und den Wirkungen der Schattenwirtschaft …. Die Teilnehmer wurden gebeten, Fragen zum Ausmaß der Schattenwirtschaft in den einzelnen Ländern, zu den Gründen für … Schattenwirtschaft und zu den Sektoren, die hauptsächlich von Schattenwirtschaft betroffen sind, zu beantworten. Der Anteil der …
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The shadow economy in industrial countries
Enste, Dominik - In: IZA World of Labor (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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The shadow economy in industrial countries
Enste, Dominik - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
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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Can the AD-AS model explain the presence and persistence of the underground economy? Evidence from Italy
Lisi, Gaetano - In: Economies 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-11
The underground economy crucially affects growth and unemployment in both developed and developing countries. Nevertheless, this widespread phenomenon does not appear in the basic model for macroeconomic analysis, namely the Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply (or simply AD-AS) model. Therefore,...
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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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The portrait of Uganda's informal sector: What main obstacles do the sector face?
Mugoda, Salmon; Esaku, Stephen; Nakimu, Rose Kibuka; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-28
In this paper, using primary data collected from business owners, we examine the nature and obstacles in the informal sector of Uganda. We find that education level matters in the selection of enterprises. The bulk of businesses, like eating kiosks, fish selling, shoe shining among others that...
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Hidden Economies and the Socially Optimal Fiscal-Tax to Liquidity-Tax Ratio
Ercolani, Marco G. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2007) 2007-6, pp. 1-32
Differential tax analysis is used to show how the socially optimal fiscal-tax to liquidity-tax ratio changes with the relative size of the tax-evading hidden economy. The smaller the relative size of the hidden economy, the larger the optimal fiscal-tax to liquidity-tax ratio. The empirical...
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Tax Evasion and the Shadow Economy
Reimers, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE Report 12 (2014) 4, pp. 61-62
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A Comparison of Corporate Governance and Tax Avoidance of UK and Japanese Firms
Salhi, Bassem; Al Jabr, Jabr; Jarboui, Anis - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 3, pp. 111-132
The present study was designed to determine the relationship between corporate governance and tax avoidance in an international setting. Financial and governance data sourced from the Datastream database for a sample of Japanese and UK firms between 2012 and 2017 are used. First, we examine the...
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Nach 1995 deutliche Wachstumsschwäche der deutschen Wirtschaft im internationalen Vergleich
Gornig, Martin; Görzig, Bernd - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 12, pp. 183-184
Im Folgenden werden ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer neuen Datenquelle zur Messung von Wachstum und Produktivität im internationalen Vergleich präsentiert. Die Informationen decken den Zeitraum von 1970 bis 2004 ab. Sie zeigen, dass Deutschland seine langjährige Wachstumsführerschaft in Europa...
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