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Explaining and tackling undeclared work in south east europe : lessons from 2019 eurobarometar survey

Williams, Colin C. - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18

The aim of this paper is to evaluate two contrasting ways of explaining and tackling undeclared work. The rational economic actor approach theorizes undeclared work as arising when the benefits of undertaking undeclared work outweigh the costs, and the policy focus is upon deterring undeclared...

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Explaining and tackling the informal economy: an evaluation of competing perspectives

Williams, Colin C. - In: Open economics 2 (2019) 1, pp. 63-75

This paper provides an evidence-based evaluation of the competing ways of explaining and tackling the informal economy. Conventionally, participants have been viewed as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the benefits outweigh the costs, and thus participation is...

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Does corruption contribute to the rise of the shadow economy? : empirical evidence from Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22

This paper investigates whether corruption has contributed to the rise of the shadow economy in Uganda. Using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach and granger causality econometric methods we find a positive relationship between corruption and the size of the shadow economy in...

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The not so dark side of trust: Does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; D'Hernoncourt, Johanna - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2012

This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of countries, both developed and developing. That relationship is robust to controlling for a large set of economic, policy, and institutional variables, to changing the estimate...

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Firm-level determinants of business tax evasion in emerging economies : the case of Argentina

Pedroni, Florencia Verónica; Briozzo, Anahí; Pesce, … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 34 (2022), pp. 83-117

This paper aims to identify the determinants of revenue underreporting and their temporal evolution from a business perspective in formal firms located in an emerging country with high inflation (Argentina). We propose a conceptual model and we estimate it empirically using a logistic regression...

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Unravelling urban advantages : a meta-analysis of agglomeration economies

Donovan, Stuart; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; … - 2021

A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical … studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta …, we find agglomeration elasticities are likely to lie in the range 2.7-6.4%. Our findings confirm the controls enabled by …

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Determinants of the Informal Economy: The Importance of Regional Factors

Krakowski, Michael - 2005

This paper analyses the determinants of the size of the informal economy using crosscountry regressions. Two sets of global data using indirect estimation techniques and the perception of business leaders for 109 countries as well as a regional set for Latin America based on direct data are used...

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Does corruption contribute to the rise of the shadow economy? Empirical evidence from Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014001431

Explaining and tackling undeclared work in South East Europe: Lessons from 2019 Eurobarometer survey

Williams, Colin C. - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465773

Firm-level determinants of business tax evasion in emerging economies: The case of Argentina

Pedroni, Florencia Verónica; Briozzo, Anahí; Pesce, … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 34 (2022), pp. 83-117

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494545