What is it about?
In our article we try to combine the theories explaining the prevalence of informal work, using a regional approach. Our analysis concludes that there is limited correlation between the prevalence of informal work and a region’s level of development, whereas there is a significant positive autocorrelation between the extent of informal work in the analysed voivodships in Poland.
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Why is it important?
Reviewing the literature, we observe that, there is no evidence to confirm that the relationships that occur in cross-country comparisons remain significant when we use regional data and analyse cross-regional variations. Our general question is therefore whether there is simply more informal work in less-developed regions, as the modernisation theory asserts.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure because it allowed me to get to know a very important problem, which in Poland and in the world is informal employment. If together with my co-author, we were able to attract readers on this issue, there is a chance that research on it will be conducted more often and will also draw the attention of politicians.
Aneta Sobiechowska-Ziegert
Gdańsk University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Informal work in Poland - a regional approach, Papers of the Regional Science Association, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12306.
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