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. The paper classifies its methods. Since Schneider published several results for Germany, the paper centers on the …Da die amtliche Statistik den Umfang der gesamten Schattenwirtschaft nicht gesondert nachweist, sind Schätzungen … erforderlich. Dieser Beitrag systematisiert die hierbei verwendeten Methoden. Da für Deutschland insbesondere von Schneider …
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model, workers can supply labor simultaneously to the formal and the informal sectors, which we call moonlighting. The … medium income levels, while the possibility of moonlighting is relevant at higher earnings. …
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Guest-worker programs have been providing rapidly growing economies with millions of temporary foreign workers over the last couple of decades. With the duration of stay strictly limited by program rules in most of the host countries and wages paid to guest workers often set at sub-market...
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This paper contributes to the economic analysis of illicit activities and money laundering. First, it presents a theoretical model of long-run growth that explicitly considers illicit workers, activities, and income, alongside a licit private sector and a functioning government. Second, it...
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We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as tax reduction and detection of informal activities can be used as substitutes for border...
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We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...
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