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Does the Shadow Economy Pose a Challenge to Economic and Public Finance Policy? - Some Preliminary Findings

In: Public Economics and Public Choice

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  • Friedrich Schneider

    (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)

Abstract

The intensive discussion about the development of the shadow economy and illicit employment that has been taking place over the last ten years has been far from conclusive. On the one hand, it has been argued that illicit employment is partially responsible for such problems as increasing unemployment in the official sector, growing public debt and national pension deficit. On the other hand, it has been claimed that illicit employment is the individual’s escape from unjust and burdensome restraints imposed by the government. Thus, the migration into the shadow employment is seen as a reaction to excessive constraints created by public institutions and bureaucracy.81 Furthermore, as argued by sociologists and economists, the shadow economy generates a considerable share of social welfare in many countries. For example, the shadow economy is estimated to account for well above 25% of Italy’s official GDP.

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  • Friedrich Schneider, 2007. "Does the Shadow Economy Pose a Challenge to Economic and Public Finance Policy? - Some Preliminary Findings," Springer Books, in: Pio Baake & Rainald Borck (ed.), Public Economics and Public Choice, chapter 9, pages 157-180, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-72782-8_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72782-8_9
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    1. Blankart Charles B, 2008. "Wege zu mehr Steuerehrlichkeit / Towards a Better Tax Compliance," ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, De Gruyter, vol. 59(1), pages 63-90, January.

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