Vat Base Broadening, Self Supply, and the Informal Sector

By J. Piggott, J. Whalley. 2001

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Citations in the corpus

Toward a Theory of the Informal Economy (2011, unknown): “Perdomo (1990) in Venezuela, Lemieux, Fortin, and Frechette (1994) in Canada, and Piggott and Whalley (2001) in Canada all show that regulatory change tilted against business (eg, labor-friendly, tax increases) caused actors to leave the formal economy and participate in informal activity inst”
Entrepreneurship: A Weak Link in the Welfare State (2005, unknown): “The theoretical results of Jacobsen, Richter and Sørensen (2000) and Piggott and Whalley (1998) strongly suggest that the optimal tax structure involves a relatively low tax rate on those market-produced services that could alternatively be produced in the household sector.11 High rates of taxation…”
Economic and political institutions and entry into formal and informal entrepreneurship (2014, unknown): “…originally suggested, the informal economy is very much a permanent feature of virtually any economy, and it is therefore important to understand the implications of this phenomenon for management as well as the broader economy (e.g., Becker, 2004; de Soto, 1989, 2000; Piggott & Whalley, 2001).”