Tax Rates and Corruption: Labour-market and Fiscal Effects. Empirical cross-country comparisons on OECD and transition countries

Mária Lackó ()

No 309, wiiw Research Reports from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw

Abstract: The paper attempts to explain how tax rates, the extent of corruption and various institutional aspects of the labour market influence the relative size of different segments (unemployment, employment, self-employment and activity in the hidden economy) of the labour market as well as the tax revenues in both developed market economies and transition countries. Based on theoretical assumptions and methodological considerations, alternative regression calculations are carried out on data for 28 OECD countries and partly on 18 transition countries for the period 1995 to 2000. A methodological novelty of the investigation is the establishment and testing of a new variable, the subjective tax rate.

Keywords: taxation; corruption; labour market; hidden economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 E26 H2 H26 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 80 pages including 27 Tables and 16 Figures
Date: 2004-09
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