 Tax evasion and well-being: A study of the social and institutional context in Central and Eastern EuropeAda Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Klarita Gërxhani European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, vol. 45, issue S, 149-159 Abstract: The paper examines the relationship between tax evasion and individuals’ well-being by using a subjective question on life satisfaction in fourteen Central and Eastern European countries. The paper focuses on the role of institutions and social capital in molding this relationship. The results indicate that evading taxes is negatively associated with individuals’ life satisfaction. This negative relationship seems to be shaped by a positive perception of formal tax-related institutions and a high level of formal social capital. A similar analysis run for two generational groups, distinguished in terms of whether having had working experience during communism, yields further interesting results: while associational engagement (i.e. formal social capital) has a crucial role to the younger generation in the way they experience the relationship between evading tax and how satisfied they are with their life, for the older generation it is their social networks (i.e. informal social capital) that shape this relationship. Keywords: Life satisfaction; Subjective well-being; Tax evasion; Institutions; Social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:poleco:v:45:y:2016:i:s:p:149-159 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2016.09.004 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Political Economy is currently edited by J. De Haan, A. L. Hillman and H. W. Ursprung More articles in European Journal of Political Economy from Elsevier |
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