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Driving forces of informal labour supply and demand in Germany
Author(s) -
HAIGNER Stefan D.,
JENEWEIN Stefan,
SCHNEIDER Friedrich,
WAKOLBINGER Florian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2013.00191.x
Subject(s) - inefficiency , labour supply , labour economics , informal sector , german , economics , government (linguistics) , unemployment , supply and demand , economic growth , microeconomics , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , history
The authors empirically investigate people's reasons for supplying or using informal labour, on the basis of data obtained from a 2010 survey of German residents. Building on existing research, they find that being unemployed, or having been unemployed in the past, significantly increases the probability of supplying informal labour. In addition, dissatisfaction with one's relative standing in society, and annoyance at government inefficiency, both have a significant positive effect on male informal labour supply. Informal labour demand, however, is not affected by these factors.