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Dell’Anno, Roberto and Gómez de Antonio, Miguel and Alañón Pardo, Ángel (2007) The shadow economy in three Mediterranean countries: France, Spain and Greece. A MIMIC approach. Empirical Economics, 33 (1). pp. 51-84. ISSN 0377-7332
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-006-0084-3
Abstract
This paper offers estimations of the evolution of the shadow economy in three Mediterranean countries, namely France, Spain and Greece. A multiple indicators and multiple causes model based on the latent variable structural theory has been applied. As established by Giles (Working paper on monitoring the health of the tax system, 1995), filtered data to solve the non-stationary problems are used. The model includes the tax burden (both as a whole and disaggregated into direct taxes, indirect taxes and social security contributions), a proxy of regulation burden, theu nemployment rate and self-employment as causes of the shadow economy and the GDP growth rate, the labour force participation ratio and the currency ratio as indicators of the underground economy. The results confirm that unemployment, the fiscal burden and self-employment are the main causes of the shadow economy in these countries, and confirm that an inverse relationship exists between the official GDP growth rate and that of the unofficial economy.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Shadow economy; Structural equation model. |
Subjects: | Social sciences > Economics > Econometrics |
JEL: | O17, C39, H26 |
ID Code: | 62490 |
Deposited On: | 21 Oct 2020 08:36 |
Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2020 08:03 |
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