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Evaluation of the underground economy in Quebec : a microeconomic approach
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - 2010
data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted … Lacroix (2009) using very different estimation methods and data. -- underground economy ; demand system ; household behavior … ; generalized method of moments ; tax evasion ; income from self-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313314
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Mission Implausible Iii : Measuring the Informal Sector in a Transition Economy Using Macro Methods
Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - 2004
An easy and popular method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro-data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. Such inferences rely on the...
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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec : A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard - 2011
data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131981
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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777154
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Evaluation of the underground economy in Quebec: A microeconomic approach
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - 2010
data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278413
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Cash on trial
Beer, Christian; Gnan, Ernest; Birchler, Urs W.; … - Conference "Cash on Trial" <2015, Zürich>; SUERF - The …; … - 2016
Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548098
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Comment on Feige's paper "Reflections on the meaning and measurement of unobserved economies : what do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?"
Schneider, Friedrich - 2016
This comment provides a reply to Prof. Feige's paper with the title "Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?", in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show that the same critique which Prof. Feige raises against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444477
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Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence
Tonin, Mirco - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
bysome agents, thus reducing their disposable income. The comparison of food consumptionand of the consumption-income gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360528
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Estimating tax noncompliance among the self-employed : evidence from pleasure boat registers
Engström, Per; Hagen, Johannes; Johansson, Edvard - 2021
functional form assumptions in previous PW applications. The estimated sizes of income underreporting in absolute monetary … amounts are almost constant over reported income levels, whereas previous studies have assumed that the underreporting is … proportional to income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582761
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Toward an understanding of collaborative tax evasion : a natural field experiment with businesses
Doerr, Annabelle; Necker, Sarah - 2018
Sales from businesses to consumers provide fertile ground for collaborative tax evasion. However, little is known about the phenomenon. We conduct a natural field experiment with 2,900 businesses in which we take the role of consumers and vary if we request an invoice for the delivery of a...
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