Personal Opinions about the Social Security System and Informal Employment : Evidence from Bulgaria
In this paper the authors analyze the relationship between personal opinions about the social security system and levels of informal employment using data from a recent household survey carried out in Bulgaria. They compare different indicators of...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/09/19804767/personal-opinions-social-security-system-informal-employment-evidence-bulgaria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20193 |
| Summary: | In this paper the authors analyze the
relationship between personal opinions about the social
security system and levels of informal employment using data
from a recent household survey carried out in Bulgaria.
They compare different indicators of job informality,
focusing on the lack of social security affiliation as the
main indicator. The results suggest that low value is
attached to social security affiliation and that knowledge
of the social security system is very limited. As a
consequence, many workers seem to choose informal jobs
because they think that the benefits from being affiliated
with the social security system are too low compared with
the costs. On the other hand, being affiliated does not seem
to matter in terms of overall job satisfaction. |
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