Williams, C.C. and Baric, M. (2013) Tackling the undeclared economy in Croatia. South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics (SEEJE), 11 (1). 67 - 102 (35). ISSN 1109-8597
Abstract
To evaluate how undeclared work is being tackled in Croatia this paper reports an e-survey and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders in Croatia. It is revealed that, compared with the European Economic Area countries, Croatia has a weak institutional infrastructure for tackling undeclared work and pursues a narrower range of policy measures. The outcome is a call to develop a single body to better coordinate actions to tackle the undeclared economy in Croatia and for a shift towards an approach that seeks to provide gateways to formalisation. Furthermore, Croatia needs to modernise its work and welfare regime through higher levels of state expenditure in the labour market and social protection, coupled with redistribution via social transfers so as to construct a more equal society.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013. Mariana Baric and Colin. C. Williams, This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Informal Economy, Undeclared Work, Shadow Economy, Underground economy, Croatia, 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: | 13 Jul 2015 15:30 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2015 15:30 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87298 |