Shadow Economies Around the World : : Size, Causes, and Consequences / / Friedrich Schneider, Dominik Enste

• Autore: Schneider Friedrich
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (56 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Macroeconomics; Money and Monetary Policy; Taxation; Economics: General; Informal Economy; Underground Econom; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General; Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems; Labor Economics: General; Economics of specific sectors; Public finance & taxation; Monetary economics; Labour; income economics; Informal economy; Currencies; Labor; Tax incidence; Marginal effective tax rate; Informal sector; Economics; Tax administration and procedure; Money; Labor economics; Income economics
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Altri autori: EnsteDominik
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper presents estimates of the size of the shadow economy in 76 developing, transition, and OECD countries, which are derived by combining figures from different estimation methods. We describe and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the different estimation methods. We find that the growth of the shadow economy—which is now remarkably large in the 76 countries—is strongly related to increasing burdens of taxation and social security contributions, as well as to the extent of state regulatory activities. Rising corruption also has a clearly positive impact on the growth of the shadow economy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Shadow Economies Around the World
• ISBN: 1-4623-2787-7; 1-4527-9267-4; 1-281-60577-8; 1-4518-9213-6; 9786613786463
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910219908903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2000/026