We develop an estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict identifying …-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do not is likely to fail in countries where employees are often paid under the … table or engage in corrupt activities. Assuming that evading individuals have a higher consumption-income gap than non …

We develop a novel estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict …-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do not is likely to fail in countries where employees are often paid under the … table or have a secondary source of self-employed income. Assuming that evading individuals have a higher consumption-income …

In explaining wage or income by personal attributes (e.g. educational attainment, age, and ethnicity) in a regression … model, many researchers choose to use the log of wage or income as the dependent variable and then to estimate the unknown …

. The estimator then over-estimates the true value in the leading parametric income models (so the upper income tail is less …

correlation via the use of proxy variables entails an errors-in-variables bias. By solving a system of moment equations for income … averaging estimator provides intermediary values between OLS and the proposed estimator. Persistence is higher for family income …