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Tackling undeclared work in the European Union: An evaluation of government policy approaches

Williams, Colin C. - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 10 (2019) 2, pp. 135-147

In recent years, it has been increasingly recognised that governments seeking to tackle undeclared work effectively should adopt a holistic approach. This seeks to coordinate strategy across the fields of labour, tax and social security law, and to use the full range of policy measures...

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Tackling unregistered employment in European regions: Towards a variegated policy approach

Williams, Colin C. - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 12 (2021) 2, pp. 104-122

To tackle participation in unregistered employment, the conventional policy approach has been to deter such work by increasing the penalties and risk of detection. Recently, an alternative preventative approach has emerged that tackles participation in unregistered employment by improving...

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Tackling the informal economy in the European Union: A social actor approach

Williams, Colin C.; Kayaoglu, Aysegul - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 7 (2016) 2, pp. 133-147

In recent years, participants in the informal economy have started to be viewed less as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the pay-off is greater than the expected cost of being caught and punished, and more as social actors who engage when their tax morale (i.e.,...

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Does Economic Development Require ‘Certain’ Property Rights?

Boettke, Peter J. - 2015

The purpose of this chapter is to re-examine the conventional wisdom regarding the impact of increased levels of secure property rights on the level of income per capita across the world. Rather than focus on increasing the level of security for property rights, economic development involves...

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Property Rights and Economic Development

Besley, Timothy J. - 2010

This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It addresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between property rights and...

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Security of Property Rights for Whom?

Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2012

Protecting the entitlements of some inherently requires preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. Yet much recent research regarding property rights and economic development treats the level of property rights security in a country as homogeneous. This one-dimensional...

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Security of Property Rights for Whom?

Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2010

Using a new set of indicators that measure the Property Insecurity of ethnopolitical minority groups, I find that Property Insecurity is not correlated with the Risk of Expropriation facing foreign investors and domestic elites – revealing that the aggregate measures of 'institutional quality'...

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Chapter 68. Property Rights and Economic Development

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4525-4595). 2010

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The nature of corruption : an interdisciplinary perspective

Dimant, Eugen - 2013

Corruption has fierce impacts on economic and societal development and is subject to a vast range of institutional …, jurisdictional, societal and economic conditions. Research indicates that corruption's predominantly negative effects have arisen to … impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …

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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa: Evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR

Njoya, Loudi; Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022

. 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 …

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