Mutascu, Mihai; Hegerty, Scott W. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19
This paper explores the impact of refugees on the size of the underground economy in 28 European Union countries over … main findings uncover a nonlinear connection between refugees and the informal economy with an inverted V-shape and a … different magnitude of effects depending on the share of the refugee population. The underground economy is stimulated at a low …