Explaining The Prevalence Of The Informal Economy In The Baltics: An Institutional Asymmetry Perspective1

• Authors: Williams, Colin C , Horodnic, Ioana A

Abstracts

EN

Reporting a 2013 Eurobarometer survey of participation in the informal economy across eight Baltic countries, this paper tentatively explains the informal economy from an institutional perspective as associated with the asymmetry between the codified laws and regulations of the formal institutions (state morality) and the norms, values and beliefs of citizens (civic morality). Identifying that this non-alignment of civic morality with the formal rules is more acute when there is greater poverty and inequality, less effective redistribution and lower levels of state intervention in the labour market and welfare, the implications for theorising and tackling the informal economy are then discussed.

Keywords

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informal sector; tax morale; social contract; institutional analysis; Baltics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2016-01-06

Contributors

author

Williams, Colin C

author

Horodnic, Ioana A

other

Williams, Colin C. - Colin C. WILLIAMS, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, Conduit Road, Sheffield S10 1FL, UK

other

Horodnic, Ioana A. - Ioana A. HORODNIC, Department of Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

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Williams, Colin C. - [e-mail]

other

Horodnic, Ioana A. - [e-mail]

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/17266