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The Unofficial Economy in Transition [PDF]
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1997 Economics ; Version of ...
Simon Johnson +4 more
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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development [PDF]
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2008 In developing countries, informal firms account for up to about half of all economic activity. Using data from World Bank firm-level surveys, we find that informal firms are small and extremely unproductive compared with even the small formal firms in the sample, and especially relative to the larger formal firms.
La Porta, Rafael, Shleifer, Andrei
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Is Unofficial Economy a Source of Corruption? [PDF]
Occasional paper series, 1999 The paper discusses the link between unofficial economy and overall economic efficiency. Special emphasis is put on tax evasion and corruption and their interaction with unofficial economy.
Michael Faulend, Vedran Sosic
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Russia's Debt Crisis and the Unofficial Economy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000 Russia's foreign debt problems worsened substantially after the financial crisis of 1998. The paper focuses on the key role of the government in servicing foreign debt and promoting institution building by showing how foreign debt influences the choice between official and unofficial taxation.
Claudia M. Buch +3 more
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The Unofficial Economy in Croatia : Causes, Size and Consequences [PDF]
Occasional paper series, 1997 In all economies, there is a part which is not included in the official economy, in other words, economic activities not included in the official statistics. The size of the unofficial economy in the Republic of Croatia was probably at least 25% of GDP in 1995. Two periods can be clearly distinguished between 1990 and 1996.
Ivo Bicanic, Katarina Ott
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Decentralization, Corruption, and the Unofficial Economy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 We analyze the implications of decentralization for the incentives of local governments to provide productivity enhancing local public goods and extort bribes from local entrepreneurs. We show that an increase in the share of locally raised tax revenue left with the local government raises its incentives to provide public goods and brings more ...
Michael Alexeev, Luba Habodaszova
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Underground Economy in Croatia [PDF]
Financial 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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CRIME TAX AND FINANCIAL FRAUD AS A THREAT TO PUBLIC FINANCES IN POLAND [PDF]
Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2014 The paper attempts to identify the scale of fiscal crime perpetrated in Poland in terms of two tax liabilities: the value of goods and services (VAT) and excise duties.
Jacek BINDA, Ryszard Bełdzikowski
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The Effects and Consequences of Informal Employment in Iran: An Integrated Approach of Theme Analysis and Delphi [PDF]
پژوهشهای برنامه و توسعه, 2022 Informal employment emerges and intensifies as industrialization and urbanization increased, leading to a lack of labor support. Starting with the expansion of urbanization and the creation of the informal economy, it is already remarkable to examine ...
Majid Mohammad Shafiee +1 more
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Consumption in the Dark: Estimating Unrecorded Expenditures of Households in Croatia
Croatian Economic Survey, 2017 The unofficial sector is generally regarded as an important liability for the development of a post-transitional society. In this paper we adopt a new approach to estimate the unofficial economy by estimating the unrecorded consumption of households in ...
Bruno Škrinjarić +2 more
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