Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/115509 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-556
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper shows that workers who do not receive legally mandated benefits due to employer noncompliance have a negative view not only of their employers, as has been documented, but also of the State. Those workers believe that the State did not protect their rights, and hence they feel fewer obligations to comply with their duties as citizens. Using a list experiment, as well as household data from nine Latin American countries, the paper shows that non-registered workers are less likely to obey the law, pay taxes and vote compared to registered workers.
Subjects: 
Labor
Informality
Citizenship
Vote
Taxes
Latin America
JEL: 
C83
H26
J22
J46
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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