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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
determinants such as: corruption, regulation and bureaucracy, quality of public and government services, detection probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013485826
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The Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa : Size and Determinants
Medina, Leandro - 2017
The multiple indicator-multiple cause (MIMIC) method is a well-established tool for measuring informal economic activity. However, it has been criticized because GDP is used both as a cause and indicator variable. To address this issue, this paper applies for the first time the light intensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950389
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The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285538
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The Impact of Inequality on the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Mimic Model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348093
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Formal Effects of Informal Labor Supply : Evidence from the Syrian refugees in Turkey
Gulek, Ahmet - 2022
jobs and increased government tax revenue by $155 million per year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242162
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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining : A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector
Bouev, Maxim - 2005
formal sector by corrupt bureaucracy can make for stable coexistence of formal and informal jobs in the long term. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064679
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Interrelationships of the hidden economy and some visible segments of the labour market
Lackó, Mária (contributor) - 2007
the hidden economy and the size of self-employment can be explained by similar explanatory variables, tax rates and … corruption being prominent among them. In part 4 we set up and quantify a model to analyze the interrelationships among the … statistical agencies. We show that the size of this part of the hidden economy is determined by the tax rate related to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003644143
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Government Policy in the Formal and Informal Sectors
Prado, Mauricio - 2011
The paper quantitatively investigates, in general equilibrium, the interaction between the firms’ choice to operate in the formal or the informal sector and government policy on taxation and enforcement, given a level of regulation. A static version of Ghironi and Melitz’s (2005) industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050768
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How does corruption affect public debt? : an empirical analysis
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2013 - Revised version
This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public debt in 106 countries. Results suggest that … corruption leads to an increase in public debt. We also investigate if the effect of corruption on pblic debt is increased by … government expenditure, the shadow economy and military expenditure. We find that the effect of corruption on public debt is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208991
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The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy in Ukraine and other Central and Eastern European countries
Cherviakova, Valentyna; Cherviakova, Tetiana - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 7-30
The article investigates the causes, essence, and peculiarities of corruption and the shadow economy, as well as how … between levels of corruption and the shadow economy in all Central and Eastern European countries. However, the degree to … which corruption impacts the variation in the levels of the shadow economy differs significantly in countries across the …
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