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The Unofficial Economy in Transition [PDF]
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1997 Economics
Simon Johnson +2 more
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Is Unofficial Economy a Source of Corruption? [PDF]
Occasional Paper Series - Institute of Public Finance, 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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Causes of the Unofficial Economy in New Eu Member States [PDF]
Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja, 2013 The aim of the paper is to test the impact of various potential causes of unofficial economy in new member states (NMS). The hypothesis of the paper is that the most significant factors in NMS are the tax burden and the overall institutional environment.
Davor Mikulic
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The Unofficial Economy in Russia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper provides the various estimates of Russia’s unofficial economy during the transition period and discusses the estimation methods of the unofficial economy. It suggests that Russia’s unofficial economy, which substantially increased during the early 1990s and stands still high compared to other countries, is caused by the institutional and ...
Byung-Yeon Kim
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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 Unofficial Economy and the Business Cycle: A Test for Theories [PDF]
International Economic Journal, 2010 The shadow economy is an extensive phenomenon worldwide. It poses several questions, the consequences of fluctuations in economic activity being among the major ones. Based on official data, this paper establishes a set of cyclical properties of macroeconomic aggregates and studies how these vary across countries with the size of the unofficial sector.
Catalina Granda-Carvajal
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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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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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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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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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