The US economy has recently experienced two, seemingly unrelated, phenomena: a large
increase in post-retirement life expectancy and a major expansion in securitization and …

The US economy has recently experienced two salient, seemingly unrelated, phenomena: a
large increase in post-retirement life expectancy and a major expansion in securitization. We …

This study presents cross-country evidence indicating that the relationship between the size
of the informal sector and tax rates is ambiguous. Motivated by this finding, a standard two …

Chapter 1. Law enforcement and the size of the informal sector. I assemble new cross-
country evidence showing that contrary to the standard view, the relationship between the …

The size of the informal sector in emerging markets is large, accounting for more than one-
third of output (Vuletin, 2008) and more than 30 percent of employment (Todaro and Smith …

I assemble new cross-country evidence showing that contrary to the standard view, the
relationship between the size of the informal sector and tax rates is, at best, ambiguous. Law …

The ''burnout syndrome''has become popularly known since it was described in the 1970s
and is today an emblem of workrelated ill-health [1, 2]. Its phenomenological and …