Shadow Economies in Highly Developed OECD Countries: What are the Driving Forces?

Income tax evasion: a theoretical analysis

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Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences

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Dodging the grabbing hand: the determinants of unofficial activity in 69 countries

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The Unofficial Economy in Transition

Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, Andrei Shleifer et al. · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · 1997 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Economics, Political Science +12

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

Friedrich Schneider · European Journal of Political Economy · 2004 · 1.1K citations

Social Sciences, Development Studies, Economics +11