Horodnic, I.A., Williams, C.C. orcid.org/0000-0002-3610-1933, Maxim, A. et al. (3 more authors) (2021) Knowing and unknowing purchases of undeclared healthcare goods and services : the role of vertical and horizontal trust. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (21). 11561.
Abstract
Although major advances have been made in relation to explaining the supply side of the informal economy, this is not the case for the demand-side of the informal economy. This study analyses for the first time the purchasers of undeclared goods and services in the healthcare sector. To evaluate the purchase of undeclared healthcare goods and services, logistic regression analysis and robustness tests are used on 3048 interviews in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta. The finding is that an important share of the purchasers make this type of purchase unknowingly. However, no difference in terms of socio-economics characteristics of those who knowingly and those who unknowingly made purchases of undeclared healthcare goods and services was identified. Meanwhile a significant influence of trust (in government and in other citizens) has been identified in relation to those who made these purchases knowingly. As such, policy measures aimed at decreasing unknowing purchases and at nurturing trust are discussed in the concluding section.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | undeclared healthcare goods and services; informal economy; horizontal trust; vertical trust; consumer behaviour |
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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: | 08 Nov 2021 11:18 |
Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2021 11:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/ijerph182111561 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180124 |