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Exploring legal and political-institutional determinants of the informal economy of Pakistan

Hayat, Rizwana; Rashid, Abdul - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-18

In this paper, the size of the informal economy of Pakistan is determined by including the legal and political …-institutional variables as determinants. By using the MIMIC model average estimate for the informal economy of Pakistan is 37.75 percent from … formation process can be more effective in developing countries like Pakistan with consideration of the most relevant …

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Explaining and tackling the shadow economy in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania : a tax morale approach

Williams, Colin C.; Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra - In: Baltic journal of economics 15 (2015) 2, pp. 81-98

To explain the shadow economy in the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, this paper evaluates the relationship between the shadow economy and tax morale. Viewing tax morale as a measure of the symmetry between the codified laws and regulations of formal institutions (state morality)...

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Estimating the size of informal economy in a post-transition country : the case of Poland

Cichocki, Stanisław; Torój, Andrzej - In: Baltic journal of economics 23 (2023) 1, pp. 91-116

The size of the informal economy in Poland is estimated by means of the Currency Demand Approach (CDA). Using quarterly data for the period 1999–2019, we adopt two separate econometric approaches. First, we specify a single equation model to estimate it with the Fully-Modified OLS method....

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Entrepreneurship in the shadows : wealth constraints and government policy

Tumen, Semih - 2016

I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...

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How important are management practices for the productivity of small and medium enterprises?

Demenet, Axel; Hoang, Quynh - 2018

Is the lack of "managerial capital", alongside human and financial capital, a constraint on the growth of firms in developing countries? The evidence on this is still mixed, especially among small and medium enterprises. This paper uses a panel of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises to...

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VAT Collection and Social Security Contributions under Tax Evasion: Is There a Link?

Antón-Sarabia, Arturo; Hernández-Trillo, Fausto - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2010

In this work we estimate the potential government revenue collection to finance Levy (2008)’s proposal of financing social security with Value Added Taxes, taking into account general equilibrium effects in a context of coexistence of formality and informality. Here, the latter is defined in...

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Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy

Tumen, Semih - 2016

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From local to global and informal to formal: Entering mainstream markets

Nanavaty, Reema - 2005

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy workers’...

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Use of households survey data to estimate the size of the informal economy in Romania

Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Nicolae, Mariana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The study is focused on estimating the informal economy in Romania based on survey in households. Moreover, some specific dynamic models to simulate complicated types of household’s behaviour (regimes) relating to participation in informal economy are presented.

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Die Rolle des informellen Sektors in der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Argentiniens.

Schröter, Lars - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper gives a wide introduction in the problematic of the informal sector / informal economy and analyzes its causes and effects in Argentina. The analysis of the development of the informal sector starts in the 1980s. The focus lies in the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s where the...

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