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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32171| Title: | The impact of unemployment rate on the dimension of shadow economy in Spain : a structural equation approach |
| Authors: | Dobre, Ion Alexandru, Adriana AnaMaria |
| Keywords: | Informal sector (Economics) -- Spain Unemployment -- Spain Structural equation modeling |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of Piraeus. International Strategic Management Association |
| Citation: | Dobre, I., & Alexandru, A. A. (2009). The impact of unemployment rate on the dimension of shadow economy in Spain: a structural equation approach. European Research Studies Journal, 12(4), 179-197. |
| Abstract: | The paper uses annual data for the period 1970-2007 in order to estimate the size of Spanish shadow economy. In view to do so, the shadow economy is modelled like a latent variable using the structural equation model(SEM). The model includes tax burden, social benefits, subsidies, government employment, self-employment and unemployment rate as main causes of shadow economy and the results indicates that the size of informal sector oscillates between 22% and 18% of GDP in the last ten years. Investigating the relationship between the shadow economy and unemployment rate a positive relationship is marked out between this two variables. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/32171 |
| ISSN: | 11082976 |
| Appears in Collections: | European Research Studies Journal, Volume 12, Issue 4 |
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