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Tax Rates with Corruption: Labour-market Effects. Empirical Cross-country Comparisons on OECD Countries

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Mária Lackó () (Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

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The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of the segments of the labour market such as unemployment, employment, self-employment and activity in the hidden economy. The novelty of our approach is the theoretical justification of the interaction between the perception of taxes and of corruption, as well as the establishment of a new concept and variable, the subjective tax rate. Alternative regression calculations are carried out on data for OECD countries for the period 1995 to 2000. The tests confirm the validity of the new variable and the results imply the need for a more sophisticated policy approach for influencing labour market outcomes.

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Paper provided by Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in its series IEHAS Discussion Papers with number 0604.

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Date of creation: 15 May 2006
Date of revision: 15 May 2006
Handle: RePEc:has:discpr:0604

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Keywords: Taxation corruption labour market hidden economy

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy
J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion

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