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Underground Economy in Croatia [PDF]

open access: yesFinancial Theory and Practice, 2009
The subject of this paper is to estimate the size of underground economy in the period 2001-2007 using labour approach. Two types of data are used: administrative and survey. The main questions are: How did the activity rates move?
Marija Švec
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The underground economy in Croatia [PDF]

open access: yesOccasional paper series, 2002
This article is a succinct description of research into the underground economy (UE) in Croatia in the 1990 to 2000 period. The circumstances surrounding and the reasons for the origin of the UE are explained, the dimensions of and changes in the UE are ...
Ott, Katarina
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Wages, Unemployment, and the Underground Economy [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
While examining the macroeconomic effects of increased government control of the informal sector, this paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Different goods are produced in the
Kolm, Ann-Sofie, Larsen, Birthe
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The underground economy and the underdevelopment trap [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
A general equilibrium model is proposed which assumes that firms hire both official and unregistered workers as imperfect substitutes, that entrepreneurs differ in their ability to increase the efficiency of official labour, and that this ability is due ...
Carillo, Rosaria, Pugno, Maurizio
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The underground economy and tax evasion in Ghana: Implications for economic growth

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance
The objective of the study was to determine the size of Ghana’s “underground economy” and the extent of tax evasion in Ghana. The underground economy in most countries is vital because it serves as a survival place for most people.
Prince Amfo Wiafe   +3 more
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Financial Development and the Underground Economy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Development Economics, 2013
We provide a theoretical and empirical study of the relation between financial development and the size of the underground economy. In our theoretical framework agents allocate investment between a low-return technology which can be operated with ...
Salvatore Capasso, Tullio Jappelli
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UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN INDONESIA

open access: yesBuletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan, 2016
This paper estimates the size of underground economic activity in Indonesia. Underground economy covers market production of goods and services, legal and illegal, which are sold or purchased illegally.
Sri Juli Asdiyanti Samuda
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The Underground Economy in Romania [PDF]

open access: yesTheoretical and Applied Economics, 2006
Underground economic activities exist in most countries around the world, and they usually have the same causes: inadequate tax systems, excessive state interference in the economy and the lack of coordination in establishing economic policies.
Cleopatra Sendroiu   +2 more
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UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, INFLUENCES ON NATIONAL ECONOMIES [PDF]

open access: yesAnalele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2015
The purpose of research is to improve the understanding of nature underground economy by rational justification of the right to be enshrined a reality that, at least statistically, can no longer be neglected.
CEAUȘESCU IONUT
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Informal and underground economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
There is a widespread feeling that a substantial and increasing share of activities take place outside the official economy. This holds, in particular, for developing and transition but also for high income economies.
Bruno Frey, Friedrich Schneider
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