%0 Journal Article
%T Why is Informal Employment Too Difficult to Control? Further Evidence from Cultural Perspective
%A Aeggarchat Sirisankanan
%J Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics
%@ 2321-5305
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0260107918763702
%X Much of the literature on informal employment examines the impact of tangible benefits such as earnings. Little attention has focused on the impact of non-pecuniary benefits on informality. The article has initially applied some of Schwartz¡¯s cultural indices, which include autonomy and embeddedness as a proxy for the desire to be independent, and hypothesizes that such cultural perspective have a substantial influence on informal employment. Using many empirical approaches, the results show that embeddedness has a large, negative, significant effect on informal employment, while an increase in the level of intellectual autonomy results in a great expansion in informal employment. JEL: A14, J46, O1
%K Informal employment
%K Schwartz¡¯s cultural indices
%K autonomy
%K embeddedness
%K non-pecuniary benefits
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0260107918763702