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Revisiting the undeclared service economy as a dual labour market: lessons from a 2019 Eurobarometer survey
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to transcend the long-standing depiction that workers universally participate in the undeclared service economy out of necessity due to their exclusion from the formal labour market, by proposing and evaluating the existence of a dual undeclared labour market in the service ... view more
The aim of this paper is to transcend the long-standing depiction that workers universally participate in the undeclared service economy out of necessity due to their exclusion from the formal labour market, by proposing and evaluating the existence of a dual undeclared labour market in the service sector composed of an ‘upper-tier’ of voluntary exit-driven and ‘lower-tier’ of exclusion-driven undeclared service sector workers. Reporting a 2019 Eurobarometer survey conducted in 28 European countries, a dual labour market in the undeclared service economy is validated. Three-quarters of undeclared service workers report either purely exit- or exclusion driven rationales. For every lower tier undeclared service worker, 6.7 are in the upper tier, with those in the voluntary exit-driven upper tier more likely to be older, self-employed, having spent time in full-time education, and to be living in Western Europe and Nordic countries. The theoretical and policy implications are then discussed.... view less
Keywords
dual economy; Europe; service; service work; tertiary sector; Eurobarometer; informal sector; labor market segmentation; moonlighting
Classification
Economic Sectors
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
undeclared work; service sector; dual labour market; ZA7579: Eurobarometer 92.1 (2019)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-22
Journal
The Service Industries Journal (2021)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/02642069.2021.1932830
ISSN
1743-9507
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0