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

dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Colin C.en
dc.contributor.authorHorodnic, Ioana A.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-05T15:15:25Z
dc.date.available2016-03-05T15:15:25Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-06en
dc.identifier.issn1231-1952en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/17266
dc.description.abstractReporting 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.en
dc.publisherLodz Univeristy Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEuropean Spatial Research and Policy;2en
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.en
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dc.subjectinformal sectoren
dc.subjecttax moraleen
dc.subjectsocial contracten
dc.subjectinstitutional analysisen
dc.subjectBalticsen
dc.titleExplaining The Prevalence Of The Informal Economy In The Baltics: An Institutional Asymmetry Perspective1en
dc.page.number127-145en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationWilliams, Colin C. - Colin C. WILLIAMS, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, Conduit Road, Sheffield S10 1FL, UKen
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationHorodnic, Ioana A. - Ioana A. HORODNIC, Department of Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania.en
dc.identifier.eissn1896-1525
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dc.contributor.authorEmailWilliams, Colin C. - C.C.Williams@sheffield.ac.uken
dc.contributor.authorEmailHorodnic, Ioana A. - ursachi_ioana_alexandra@yahoo.comen
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/esrp-2015-0029en
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