The Increase of the Size of the Shadow Economy of 18 OECD Countries: Some Preliminary Explanations

By Friedrich Schneider. Social Science Research Network, 2000

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The latest empirical results of the size of the shadow economy in 18 OECD countries are presented, using the currency demand approach to calculate the shadow economy over time. The results indicate a strong increase in the size of the shadow economy, over the period 1960 to 1998 and for 15 of the 18 investigated OECD-countries the size of the shadow economy is more than 13% of the GNP for the year 1998. Also an analysis is given about the size of influences of major causes (direct and indirect tax burden and government regulation) on the shadow economy for Austria.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: Revised Estimates for 120 Countries (2007, background): “9 See Thomas (1992); Lippert and Walker (1997); Schneider (1994a, 1994b, 1997, 1998a, 1998b, 2000, 2003b, 2005, 2007); Johnson, Kaufmann, and Zoido-Lobatón (1998a,1998b); Tanzi (1999); Giles (1999a); Mummert and Schneider (2001); Giles and Tedds (2002) and Dell’Anno (2003), just to quote a few…”
The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries All Over the World: First Results Over the Period 1999 to 2003 (2004, background): “Empirical results of the influence of the tax burden on the shadow economy is provided in the studies of Schneider (1994b, 2000, 2005) and Johnson, Kaufmann and Zoido-Lobatón (1998a, 1998b); they all found statistically significant evidence for the influence of taxation on the shadow economy.”
Shadow economies all over the world : new estimates for 162 countries from 1999 to 2007 (2010, background): “6 Empirical results showing the influence of the tax burden on the shadow economy are provided in the studies of Schneider (1994b, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007) and Johnson, Kaufmann and Zoido-Lobatón (1998a, 1998b); they all found statistically significant evidence for the influence of taxation on the…”
The shadow economy of Italy and other OECD countries: what do we know? (2003, methodology): “A comparison with the estimates obtained by the other methods, the currency demand approach and MIMIC [SCHNEIDER26, 2000, 2002; SCHNEIDER – ENSTE27, 2000], 24 SCHNEIDER – ENSTE [2000] group the estimates for the period ’76-’80; here is averaged and assigned this value to year 1978.”