Claudio E. Montenegro

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present estimations of shadow economies for 162 countries, including developing, Eastern European, Central Asian and high income OECD countries over 1999 to 2006/2007, and find that an increased burden of taxation (direct and indirect ones), combined with (labour market) regulations and the quality of public goods and services as well as the state of the ‘official’ economy are the driving forces of the shadow economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented estimations of the shadow economies for 162 countries, including developing, Eastern European, Central Asian, and high-income countries over the period 1999 to 2006/2007.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the spatial transformations needed for development and analyze these changes using the insights from economic history and recent research, and revisits the policy debates on urbanization, regional development, and international integration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the "place premium", the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States, and show that the policy-induced portion of the place premium in wages represents one of the largest remaining price distortions in any global market; is much larger than wage discrimination in spatially integrated markets; and makes labor mobility capable of reducing households' poverty at the margin by much more than any known in situ intervention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented estimations of shadow economies for 162 countries, including developing Eastern European, Central Asian, and high income OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2006/2007.