Using data on 434 Brazilian municipalities, this paper estimates the effect of both corruption and the size of the … effect of corruption is insignificant. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in the size of the informal sector is …

informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …

. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption … rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577, economic growth reduces (increases) informal economic sector. The corruption … proxy is measured as a decreasing function of corruption such that higher levels of the corruption proxy translate lower …

This paper investigates whether corruption has contributed to the rise of the shadow economy in Uganda. Using … between corruption and the size of the shadow economy in both the long- and short-run. Additionally, the causality results … reveal a bidirectional causal relationship between the shadow economy and corruption, and vice versa. These findings suggest …

informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …

This paper exploits a unique dataset on corruption and informal sector employment in 476 Brazilian municipalities to … estimate whether corruption impacts GDP or income levels once variation in informal economic activity is taken into account …. Overall, I find that higher levels of corruption and a larger informal economy are generally associated with poor economic …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between corruption and productive entrepreneurship …, it proposes worldwide empirical evidence that countries with high levels of corruption usually face low levels of … than in developing countries. Third, the paper explores whether the negative effect of corruption depends on country …

data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly …

This paper investigates the relationship between political corruption and the informal-formal sector income gap. We … focus on a sample of 476 randomly selected municipalities in Brazil, and combine individual level Census data with measures … of municipal corruption. We first document the upward pressure corruption puts on the informal-formal income gap. We then …

resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the …