AUTHORS ......................................................... v
Introduction
1 The Informal Economy in Central and Eastern Europe -
Obstacle to European Integration or Bridge Between the EU
Member States and the Accession Countries? ................... 3
Boyan Belev
Part I Assessment of the Informal Economy: Methods and
Approaches
2 The Size and Development of the Shadow Economies and
Shadow Economy Labor Force of 22 Transition and 21 OECD
Countries: What Do We Really Know? .......................... 23
Friedrich Schneider
3 Going Informal: Benefits and Costs .......................... 63
Simeon Djankov, Ira Lieberman, Joyita Mukherjee and
Tatiana Nenova
4 Shadow Economy and Institutional Change in Transition
Countries ................................................... 81
Dominik H. Enste
5 Poverty and Informality in Southeast Europe ................. 115
Alexandre Marc and Zeynep Kudatgobilik
Part II The Informal Economy in Central Europe and the Baltics
6 Why People Evade Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics:
A Tale of Twins ............................................ 139
Jan Hanousek and Filip Palda
7 Informal Labor Market and Informal Economy during
the Economic Transition: The Polish Perspective ............ 175
Maciej H. Grabowski
8 Behind the Informal Economy: Estimating, Explaining,
Counteracting .............................................. 187
Guoda Steponaviciene
9 Barriers to Participation: The Informal Sector in
Emerging Democracies. The Case of Hungary .................. 191
Laszlo Kallay
Part III The Informal Economy in Southeast Europe
10 Use of Households Survey Data to Estimate the Size of
the Informal Economy in Romania ............................ 199
Lucian-Liviu Albu and Mariana Nicolae
11 Transactions versus Work: The Informal Economies in
Bulgaria in the 1990s Tanya Chavdarova ..................... 213
12 Tax Avoidance in Bulgaria: The Human Capital Approach ...... 225
Andrey Zahariev
13 Characteristics of Informal Sector Development in
Albania .................................................... 239
Gene Ruli
Part IV Early Warning and Risk Reporting for Good
Governance and Against Corruption
14 The Risks of Corruption and Anti-Corruption Strategies ..... 251
Wim van Meurs
15 Corruption or State Failure? ............................... 265
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
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