TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vuletin,Guillermo Javier
TI  - Measuring the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451869630 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Correlation
KW  - imf
KW  - Equation
KW  - Informal Economy
KW  - Latent Variable
KW  - Social Security Schemes
KW  - Surveys
KW  - Antigua and Barbuda
KW  - Bahamas, The
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
N2  - This paper estimates the size of the informal economy for 32 mainly Latin American and Caribbean countries in the early 2000s. Using a structural equation modeling approach, we find that a stringent tax system and regulatory environment, higher inflation, and dominance of the agriculture sector are key factors in determining the size of the informal economy. The results also confirm that a higher degree of informality reduces labor unionization, the number of contributors to social security schemes, and enrollment rates in education
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