Williams, C.C., Dotti, N.F. and van Heur, B. (2015) Mapping the shadow economy: spatial variations in the use of high denomination bank notes in Brussels city-region. European Spatial Research and Policy, 22 (1). 5 - 21 . ISSN 1231-1952
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to map the spatial variations in the size of the shadow economy within Brussels. Reporting data provided by the National Bank of Belgium on the deposit of high denomination banknotes across bank branches in the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, the finding is that the shadow economy is concentrated in wealthier populations and not in deprived or immigrant communities. The outcome is a call to transcend the association of the shadow economy with marginalized groups and the wider adoption of this indirect method when measuring spatial variations in the shadow economy.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 De Gruyter Open. Available under the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) |
Keywords: | informal economy; undeclared work; cash deposits; Brussels |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2015 08:44 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2018 23:59 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/esrp-2015-0014 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Lodz University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/esrp-2015-0014 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87319 |