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Estimating the Size of the Croatian Shadow Economy: A Labour Approach

Author : Sabina Hodzic

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Abstract

The shadow economy, present in every country in the world, is naturally also present in Croatia. Activities in the shadow economy are unregulated, untaxed, unregistered and unmeasured by official statistics, and, in Croatia, influence all kinds of economic activities with allocative, stabilising, welfare and redistributive effects. This chapter explores the size of the shadow economy in the period 2008–2014 using a labour inputs approach. The results show that in the period under study, the level of the Croatian shadow economy was highest in 2010 (2.89 %) and lowest in 2012 (0.29 %). The outcome will be to reveal the main reasons for the varying size of the shadow economy in recent decades in Croatia.

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Metadata
Title
Estimating the Size of the Croatian Shadow Economy: A Labour Approach
Author
Sabina Hodzic
Copyright Year
2017
Book
The Informal Economy in Global Perspective

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-40930-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-40931-3

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40931-3_4