IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cposxx/v43y2022i1p21-55.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tackling undeclared work in the European Union: beyond the rational economic actor approach

Author

Listed:
  • Ioana Alexandra Horodnic
  • Colin C. Williams

Abstract

To tackle the undeclared economy, an emergent literature has called for the dominant “rational economic actor” approach, which increases the sanctions and risk of detection, to be replaced and/or complemented by a “social actor” approach that fosters citizens’ commitment to compliance. Reporting two waves of the Eurobarometer survey conducted in 2007 and 2013 across Europe, fixed-effects logistic regression analysis reveals that although both approaches reduce participation in undeclared work, the strength of the impact of deterrents on the likelihood of participation in undeclared work has weakened between 2007 and 2013, but has strengthened for vertical and horizontal trust. The paper concludes by discussing the policy implications of these findings.

Suggested Citation

  • Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams, 2022. "Tackling undeclared work in the European Union: beyond the rational economic actor approach," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(1), pages 21-55, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:43:y:2022:i:1:p:21-55
    DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2019.1649384
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01442872.2019.1649384
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01442872.2019.1649384?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Friedrich Schneider & Mangirdas Morkunas & Erika Quendler, 2023. "An estimation of the informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU‐15 from 1996 to 2019," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(2), pages 406-447, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:43:y:2022:i:1:p:21-55. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cpos .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.