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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world: what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. Finally, the various … estimation methods are discussed and critically evaluated …

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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...

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Shadow economy, tax morale, governance and institutional quality: a panel analysis

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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Tax structure and female labour market participation: evidence from Ireland

Callan, Tim; van Soest, Arthur; Walsh, John R. - 2007

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women’s labour market participation? This issue is … a joint or aggregated basis of assessment to an income-splitting system in 1980 and a further substantial shift from … income-splitting towards greater independence from 2000 onwards. …

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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses unique information in the WERS and HILDA surveys on reported overskilling in the workplace. To a degree, the overskilling information overcomes the problem of unobserved ability...

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MIMIC models, cointegration and error correction: an application to the French shadow economy

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2008

The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...

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Wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor force

Addison, John T.; Bailey, Ralph W.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2009

Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....

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Corruption and the shadow economy: a structural equation model approach

Buehn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or complement each other -exhibiting either a negative or positive relationship. This paper -using a structural equation model with two latent variables - extracts information on...

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Are foreign migrants more assimilated than native ones?

Faini, Riccardo; Strøm, Steinar; Venturini, Alessandra; … - 2009

The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding of the role played by language and knowledge of social...

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Is the wage curve formal or informal? Evidence for Colombia

Ramos, Raúl; Duque, Juan C.; Suriñach, Jordi - 2009

The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to the differences between formal and informal workers, an issue that has been systematically ignored in the wage curve literature. The obtained results using microdata from the...

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