Informality in Turkey: evidence from a firm-level survey

dc.contributor	Graduate Program in Economics.
dc.contributor.advisor	Elgin, Ceyhun.
dc.contributor.author	Sezgin, Muhammed Burak.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-16T12:00:51Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-16T12:00:51Z
dc.date.issued	2014.
dc.identifier.other	EC 2014 S48
dc.identifier.uri	http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16445
dc.description.abstract	In this thesis, we use the results of a novel survey of 500 firms from 13 different sectors in Turkish economy and a two-sector general equilibrium model to measure the extent of informality in these sectors through a sectoral analysis as well as in country level. Afterwards, we evaluate the effects of two different policy tools, namely the level of income taxes and the level of tax enforcement on informality. Our results show that both are effective policy tools in tackling informality, enforcement is a steadily effective tool and the effect of taxation, while positive, shifts around depending on the enforcement level.
dc.format.extent	30 cm.
dc.publisher	Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014.
dc.subject.lcsh	Informal sector (economics) -- Turkey.
dc.subject.lcsh	Tax evasion -- Turkey.
dc.title	Informality in Turkey: evidence from a firm-level survey
dc.format.pages	vii, 35 leaves ;