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ISBN 10: 1000163803

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Author:   Ceyhun Elgin  

The Informal Economy: Measures, Causes, and Consequences provides a comprehensive account of the economics of informality through the lenses of various economic perspectives. Although informal economic activity is widespread all around the world, many issues around its nature and consequences remain largely under-explored or unresolved. Most importantly, the evidence presented in the existing literature on informality has failed to generate a consensus on the measurements, causes, and effects of the informal sector among researchers. Most, if not all, of the empirical results are inconclusive or dependent on the nature of the dataset used in the analysis. This book aims to address that gap by exploring different definitions and measures of the informal economy, including different perspectives, then subjecting these measures to a battery of empirical tests to examine the determinants and effects of informality. Through this analysis and an extensive review of the literature, the book explores many of the economic, political, and social factors of the informal economy including the relationship between informality and the tax burden, tax enforcement, and institutional quality. This key text makes for compulsive reading to scholars and students interested in the informal or shadow economy.

The Informal Economy Measures Causes and Consequences 1st Table of contents:

1 Informality: curse or opportunity?
2 Definitions of informality
2.1 Defining informality
2.1.1 Definitions from early descriptive literature
2.1.2 Definitions used by national and international institutions
2.1.3 Toward a robust definition
2.2 State of the art review
2.2.1 Informality in the recent literature
2.2.2 Future directions in the literature on informality
3 Measuring informality
3.1 Motivation behind measurement
3.2 Existing methods
3.2.1 Direct methods
3.2.2 Indirect methods
3.2.3 Model-based methods
3.3 A recent method on the frontier
3.3.1 The model
3.3.2 Solving the model
3.3.3 Calibration and data construction
3.3.4 Constructed data set
3.3.5 A sectoral model
3.4 Comparison of different methods
3.4.1 All models considered
3.4.2 MIMIC versus DGE
4 Size of the informal sector worldwide
4.1 Measures and trends for the global economy
4.2 Regional statistics
4.3 The informal sector in cities worldwide
4.3.1 Simple regression analysis
4.4 Forecasts for the near future
5 Determinants of informality
5.1 Literature on the determinants of informality
5.2 Tax burden
5.2.1 A quick look at the plain data
5.2.2 A simple model on taxes and informal sector
5.2.3 Empirical analysis
5.3 Institutional quality
5.3.1 A theoretical framework
5.4 Other determinants and policy implications
5.4.1 Other macroeconomic determinants of informality
5.4.2 Implications for policy-makers
6 Effects of informality
6.1 Effects on fiscal policy
6.1.1 Effects on taxes
6.1.2 Effects on public debt
6.2 Effects on monetary policy
6.2.1 Growth effects of inflation and informal sector
6.2.2 Effect on monetary policy through housing markets
6.3 Other effects of informality and policy implications
6.3.1 Unionization
6.3.2 Effects on growth and technology
6.3.3 Growth, wage-productivity gap, and informality
6.3.4 Pollution
6.3.5 Corporate social responsibility
6.3.6 Bilateral trade effects
6.3.7 Implications for policy-makers
7 Concluding remarks

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