Polish Households' Behavior in the Regular and Informal Economies

François Gardes and Christophe Starzec

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Abstract: The paper analyzes characteristics of the informal economy in Poland in the context of transition using a specific survey carried out in the frame of the classic Labor Force Survey 1995 by the Polish National Statistical office (GUS). The participation probabilities of three types of informal activities (working, buying and hiring) are discussed. Their interdependencies are discussed the hypothesis of the network or neighborhood effects. The impact of the household's participation on informal markets on its regular consumption is estimated by imputing the informal activity probabilities to the consumption surveys and panel. Then, the specific consumption profiles of participants in the informal market can be identified. This participation does influence significantly more than half of the household's expenditure groups. Moreover, the participants of the informal economy distinguish themselves by the higher individual full prices (integrating non monetary constraints and resources).

Keywords: Informal economy participation; Consumer behavior; Cross-section-panel estimation; Economie informelle; comportement de consommation; estimation cross section; panel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09
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Published in Revue Economique, 2009, 60 (5), pp.1181-1210. ⟨10.3917/reco.605.1181⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/reco.605.1181

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