Remittances and Informal Work
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- Schneider, Friedrich & Khan, Shabeer & Baharom Abdul Hamid & Khan, Abidullah, 2019. "Does the tax undermine the effect of remittances on shadow economy?," Economics Discussion Papers 2019-67, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW).
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Keywords
transition economies; non-migrant households; informal work; migration; remittances; two stage residual inclusion;JEL classification:
- F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances
- J46 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Informal Labor Market
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2016-09-25 (Informal & Underground Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2016-09-25 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2016-09-25 (Economics of Human Migration)
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