Introduction / Christopher Bajada and Friedrich Schneider -- Taxpayer behaviour and motivations -- Illegal, immoral, fattening or what? : How deterrence and responsive regulation shape tax moral / Lars P. Feld and Bruno S. Frey -- Explaining taxpayer non-compliance through reference to taxpayer...

Although there has been considerable discussion on the size of the shadow economy, comparatively little attention has been given to relationship between unemployment and participation in this sector. The objective of this paper is to examine participation in the shadow economy by those who claim...

Despite continuous government attempts to increase taxpayer compliance, the shadow economy continues to offer a way for taxpayers to evade their taxpaying obligations. The consequences are clear: policy-makers have increasingly imperfect knowledge about the state of economic affairs as shadow...