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Illegal “moonlighting” costs government billions

This content was published on Dec 21, 2002 Friedrich Schneider, an economics professor at the University of Linz in Austria, says moonlighting is now the fastest growing sector of Switzerland’s economy. Illegal workers in Switzerland earned more than SFr39 billion ($27 billion) in 2002, representing 9.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), according to the study. Schneider estimates that there are around…