The Black Economy and Education
| Title: | The Black Economy and Education |
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| Authors: | Ann-so Kolmyand; Birthe Larsenz; Jel-codes H |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://www.eale.nl/Conference2010/Programme/PapersPostersessions I/add128370_IIPUgilWXh.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2010 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | Tax evasion; underground economy; education; matching; unemployment |
| Description: | This paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that informal sector job opportunities distort educational attain-ment inducing a too low stock of educated workers. As informal job opportunities to a larger extent face low skilled workers, combating the informal sector improves welfare as it increases the incentives for edu-cation. However, too aggressive combating of the informal sector is not optimal as that induces ine ¢ ciently high unemployment rates. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.603.9672; http://www.eale.nl/Conference2010/Programme/PapersPostersessions I/add128370_IIPUgilWXh.pdf |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.603.9672; http://www.eale.nl/Conference2010/Programme/PapersPostersessions I/add128370_IIPUgilWXh.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.3775571C |
| Database: | BASE |