The effects of tax rates and corruption on the labour market. A cross-sectional comparative analysis of the OECD countries

• Authors: Lacko M.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The study examines how tax rates, corruption and various labour-market institutions affect the relative sizes of various segments of the labour market - the unemployed, the employed, the self-employed, and those working in the hidden economy - in the developed market economies. Regressive analyses of the OECD countries for 1995-2000 confirm that differences of tax rates and market institutions are joined by differences in the scale of corruption as important explanatory factors for relative size of the labour-market segments. With the hidden economy and self-employment, the coefficients of expressing the effect of tax rates themselves depend on the scale of corruption, as a manifestation of interaction between these.

Keywords

EN

CORRUPTION; DEVELOPED MARKET ECONOMIES; HIDDEN ECONOMY; LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Committee for Economic Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 961-985
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lacko M.

• M. Lacko, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07HUAAAA02986107