Berens, Sarah 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3569
(2020).
Opting for Exit: Informalization, Social Policy Discontent, and Lack of Good Governance.
Latin Amer. Polit. Soc., 62 (2).
S. 1 - 29.
NEW YORK:
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS.
ISSN 1548-2456
Abstract
The informal sector challenges economic growth and hinders the abatement of income disparities in developing countries. This study argues that a weak and poorly governed welfare state can cause the informal sector to increase when individuals use it as an exit option from an unsatisfying welfare system. The article explores how the welfare state's benefit structure and citizens' trust in institutions to deliver public goods affect the likelihood of informality. A logistic hierarchical model, based on cross-sectional survey data from Latin America and the Caribbean and descriptive panel data from Brazil, is used to test the hypothesis. Findings reveal that social policy discontent, low trust, an elitist distribution of welfare benefits, and dysfunctional institutions increase the likelihood of being informally employed. However, workers with greater agency-the better-educated-seem notably less likely to informalize when social policy benefits are targeted toward their own socioeconomic group.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-336066 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/lap.2019.58 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Latin Amer. Polit. Soc. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 62 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 1 - 29 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | NEW YORK | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1548-2456 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/33606 |
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