Williams, C.C. orcid.org/0000-0002-3610-1933 and Horodnic, I.A. (2017) Participation in cash-in-hand work in European rural areas: an evaluation of the marginalization thesis. Journal of Economy and its Applications, 7 (1). pp. 1-27. ISSN 2217-7973
Abstract
The marginalisation thesis, which holds that populations marginalised from the formal labour market disproportionately participate in cash-in-hand work, is a core assumption of not only modernisation theory, which views cash-in-hand work as a separate realm in which marginalised groups provide goods and services for ‘bottom of the pyramid’ markets, but also political economy theory, which views cash-in-hand work as integrated into contemporary capitalism through outsourcing and subcontracting arrangements and undertaken by marginalised populations as a survival strategy. Until now however, no extensive evaluations of the validity of this marginalisation thesis in rural areas have been conducted. To fill this gap, a 2013 survey of the participation of rural populations in cash-in-hand work in 28 European member states is reported. Using multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression analysis, this reveals that although some marginalised groups in rural areas (those having difficulties paying their household bills, divorced or separated, and younger rural dwellers) are significantly more likely to participate in cash-in-hand work, others are not (women). The paper thus concludes by calling for a more nuanced theorisation of which marginal groups participate in cash-in-hand work and explores the policy implications of this more variegated understanding.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 De Gruyter. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | informal sector; rural areas; undeclared work; marginalisation; Europe |
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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: | 01 Feb 2017 11:23 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2023 10:03 |
Published Version: | http://www.ilirias.com/jea/vol_7_issue_1.html |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | De Gruyter |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/jea-2017-0001 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111208 |