Shadow economies around the world: what do we really know?

By Friedrich Schneider. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Shadow Economy: Estimation Methods, Problems, Results and Open questions (2018, methodology): “Table 3: The Size of the Shadow Economy in Germany According to Different Methods (in percentage of official GDP) Method/Source Shadow economy (in percentage of official GDP) in: 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Survey approach (IfD Allensbach, 1975) (Feld and Larsen, 2005) - 3.6 1) - - - - -”
Job Search and Mobility in Developing Countries. Theory and Policy Implications (2008, background): “1 For more empirical evidence and literature surveys on this issue, see Schneider and Enste (2000) and Schneider (2005).”
The shadow economy in Portugal: An analysis with the MIMIC approach (2007, methodology): “…(1996) for Latin America countries, Giles (1995, 1999) for New Zealand, Giles and Tedds (2002) for Canada, Dell’Anno (2003) for Italy, Bajada and Schneider (2005) for Asia-Pacific countries, Schneider (2005) for 110 countries, Chaudhuri, Schneider and Chattopadhyay (2006) for India,…”
Lurking in the cities: Urbanization and the informal economy (2013, methodology): “Similar definitions are provided by Schneider and Enste (2000), Schneider (2005, 2007) and Schneider, Buehn and Montenegro (2010) as well.”
Shedding Light on the Shadow Economy: A Global Database and the Interaction with the Official One (2019, methodology): “…the more incentives 2 Examples of this growing literature include the seminal papers by Schneider and Enste (2000, 2002), Gerxhani (2003), Feld and Schneider (2005, 2010,2011), Hassan and Schneider (2016), Schneider (2017) and Medina and Schneider (2018) 3 For recent debates and controversies…”
The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries All Over the World: First Results Over the Period 1999 to 2003 (2004, methodology): “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.”
Estimating the Size of the Shadow Economy: Methods, Problems and Open Questions (2013, neutral): “2) See Frey and Pommerehne (1984), Thomas (1992), Loayza (1996), Pozo (1996), Lippert and Walker (1997), Schneider (1994a, 1994b, 1997, 1998a, 2003, 2005, 2011), Johnson, Kaufmann, and Shleifer (1997), Johnson, Kaufmann and Zoido-Lobatón (1998a), Belev (2003), Gerxhani (2003), and Pedersen (2003).”
Corruption and the shadow economy: like oil and vinegar, like water and fire? (2011, neutral): “For example, Bajada and Schneider (2005) argue that this is not the case while Giles (1998) argues that the labor force participation rate reflects a movement of the workforce from the official to the shadow economy.”