Une évaluation de la taille de l'économie informelle par un système complet de demande estimé sur données monétaires et temporelles

Armagan T. Aktuna-Gunes, Christophe Starzec and François Gardes

Revue économique, 2014, vol. 65, issue 4, 567-589

Abstract: We use the demand system approach to estimate the size of informal economy in Turkey following the methodology based on the analysis of the individual consumption behaviour proposed by Pissarides, Weber [1989], Lyssiotou et al. [2004] and Fortin et al. [2009]. We extend this method by taking into account both the monetary expenditures and time spent on domestic activities. The necessary information of money and time inputs in consumption on the household?s level is obtained by a statistical match of the Turkish Family Budget and Time Use surveys [2006]. As expected, the estimated model size of the informal economy in Turkey using the full (time plus money) expenditure is higher than those obtained by only monetary expenditure approach (in average 40.6 % and 33.5 % of gdp for self employers and 20.7% and 14.1% of gdp for wage-earners respectively) and also higher than that obtained by more conventional macroeconomic methods (35.1%). Classification JEL : D01, D12, E26, C81

JEL-codes: C81 D01 D12 E26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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