The Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society
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"What do we know about the size of the underground economy in Italy beyond the "common wisdom"? Some empirically tested propositions." 1.Introduction. Section I. 2. The country as a whole. 2. 1. The monetary Tanzi method applied to Italy. 2.1.1. Results .2.2 The size of the underground economy according to two other methods: 2.2.1 the statistics of the labour market; 2.2.2 the magnitude of tax evasion of the inderct taxes. 2.3 A proposal for the choice of the explicative variables of the "non regular" workers. 2.4 Lessons to be drawn. Section II. 3. The South vs the Center-North. 3. 1 How to exploit aggregate national account data to get regional information. 3.2 Empirical results. 3.3 Policy implications. 4. A possible measure of the welfare loss from the underground economy. 5. Conclusions and further research.. APPENDIX: Tables and graphs. References. List of symbol.
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