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Essays on Tax Enforcement and Informality
Essays on Tax Enforcement and Informality
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152023
- ISBN
- 9798383221938
- DDC
- 310
- 서명/저자
- Essays on Tax Enforcement and Informality
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Minnesota, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 81 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-01, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Chari, V. V.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation consists of two chapters. In Chapter 1, I investigate the following question: how does tax enforcement affect the firm size distribution and total factor productivity (TFP)? To answer this question, I develop a quantitative model characterized by heterogeneous agents who choose whether to be workers, entrepreneurs in the formal sector, or entrepreneurs in the informal sector. Informal entrepreneurs do not pay taxes but face a probability of detection that is increasing in firm size. In the model, stricter tax enforcement results in lower informality and affects the firm size distribution and TFP through two mechanisms: as tax enforcement becomes stricter, fewer relatively unproductive agents choose to be entrepreneurs, and fewer entrepreneurs choose to operate in the informal sector. Using data from Brazil, I calibrate the model and estimate that a counterfactual tax enforcement that reduces the informality rate from 36% to 30% of total output-the value measured in the weighted average of the six largest Latin American economies-would account for about 9% and 28% of the observed differences in TFP and average firm size.Chapter 2 concerns definitions and measurements of informality, with a particular emphasis on Brazil. I describe the two main approaches for measuring informality and highlight their respective advantages and disadvantages. I then illustrate the evolution of business and employment informality in Brazil over the past 20 years. While there has been a general downward trend, starting in 2014, informality has slightly increased. The observed rise in informality is consistent with the counter-cyclical pattern documented in previous studies. Finally, I employ several data sources to estimate the share of informal value added in Brazil in 2003. The figures obtained are marginally lower than those estimated using indirect measures. Nonetheless, if extended across time, my approach would more accurately capture short-term fluctuations in informality.
- 일반주제명
- Statistics
- 일반주제명
- Finance
- 키워드
- Firm size
- 키워드
- Informality
- 키워드
- Tax enforcement
- 기타저자
- University of Minnesota Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-01B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17162531▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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