TY - BOOK AU - Sauka,Arnis AU - Schneider,Friedrich AU - Williams,Colin C. TI - Entrepreneurship and the shadow economy /​ SN - 9781784719876 (Hardcover) U1 - 338.04 ENT 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Cheltenham, UK : PB - Edward Elgar Publishing, KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Informal sector (Economics) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index.; pt. I METHODS TO MEASURE THE AMOUNT AND DETERMINANTS OF THE SHADOW ECONOMY 1.The bottom-up power of informal entrepreneurship /​ Maria Minniti 2.Estimating the size of the shadow economies of 162 countries using the MIMIC method /​ Friedrich Schneider 3.The components and determinants of the shadow economy: evidence from the Baltic countries /​ Amis Sauka 4.The participation of the self-employed in the shadow economy in the European Union /​ Jan Windebank pt. II ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE SHADOW ECONOMY IN VARIOUS CONTEXTS 5.Informal entrepreneurship and informal entrepreneurial activity in Russia /​ Alexander Chepurenko 6.The shadow economy and entrepreneurship in Ukraine /​ Yaroslav Prytula 7.A normative analysis of the measures to prevent the shadow economy in Finland /​ Markku Virtanen 8.The informal economy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: size and determinants /​ Leandro Medina Contents note continued: pt. III POLICY PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES ON DECREASING SHADOW ECONOMIES 9.What is to be done about entrepreneurship in the shadow economy? /​ Colin C. Williams. N2 - The shadow economy has become the focus of policy makers around the world. This timely book explores the relationship between entrepreneurship and the shadow economy, by reviewing how to measure, explain and tackle this hidden enterprise culture UR - http://www.openisbn.com/isbn/1784719870/ ER -