Varieties of Capitalism and Employment: Tackling Undeclared Work in EU Member States

Varieties of
Capitalism and
Employment

Table of Contents
Question...........................................................................................................................................1
Tackling undeclared work remains a serious policy challenge among EU member states. What
explains the presence of undeclared work in modern economies and what role does the
institutional context play in the process? Discuss with reference to theory and two countries of
your choice.............................................................................................................................1
Answer.............................................................................................................................................1
Presence of undeclared work in modern economies..............................................................1
Undeclared work remains a serious policy challenge among EU member states..................2
Main Types of Undeclared Work across the Member States.................................................4
Approaches towards undeclared work....................................................................................6
Anticipating measures to undeclared Work.........................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

Question
Tackling undeclared work remains a serious policy challenge among EU member states. What
explains the presence of undeclared work in modern economies and what role does the
institutional context play in the process? Discuss with reference to theory and two
countries of your choice.
Answer
Presence of undeclared work in modern economies
Across the 27 member states of the European Union (EU27) and Norway, many efforts
are made for developing and testing the policy measures that focus on tackling undeclared work.
There are many attempts that were made by different nations throughout Europe to explain the
precautions used by them and one characteristic was discovered, that is the lack of 'knowledge
Bank' that shows the precautions that can be effective. For bridging the knowledge gap, the
European Union had focused on making policy measures for improving the work and life
conditions by developing such resources and policies whose transferability can be measured
(Van Nuffel, 2020). Report published in the year 2008 was initiated for creating such resources
by reviewing the effectiveness and efficiency of policies adopted by five countries: the UK,
Belgium, Italy, Denmark and Poland. This report focuses on the study of examination of the
policies in EU member states based on the discovery made in the Eurobarometer survey 2007. It
mainly covers the review of policy measures within the 28 Nations representing crucial steps for
creating a comprehensive learning and resource Bank where social partners can pool and share
knowledge and explores their feasibility and transferability across other sectors.
Many policies, measures and approaches are used by European Union Nations and Norway
that gives an idea of policy approaches and best practices that are used in these countries for
preventing and curing Undeclared Work. The drives embraced range of deterrence measures,
counteraction measures, 'healing' measures trying to legitimize undeclared work, and measures
planning to change attitudes and cause obligation to the instalment of duty (Alogogianni and
Virvou, 2021). A key finding is that great practice isn't just about choosing the individual
strategy estimates that are powerful at handling undeclared work, yet additionally about
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considering the most effective way of assembling these strategy estimates in different mixes and
successions. In this way, assessing which combinations and arrangements of measures are
successful and adaptable ought to be a basic piece of the survey cycle.
Undeclared work remains a serious policy challenge among EU member states
For informing the launch of European Union platform on undeclared work a fact sheet has
been generated that summarization the features of undeclared work (UDW) and the institutions
and policy responses for addressing this across the 28 Members of European Union States. The
fact sheets are produced by EEPO National experts across each and every member state that is
acknowledged by the relevant nominated representative to the platform and it is also
subsequently analyzed by the members of EEPO core team. It is a document that presents these
fact sheets with a short synthesis of information from each other (Arendt, Grabowski and
Kukulak-Dolata, 2020).
The features of UDW were explored in the terms of the definitions applied and the main
types of UDW identified and the sectors within which it is most prevalent and the estimated scale
of the problem. The creation of the factsheets affirmed that no single meaning of UDW is
usually followed across the Member States. Where public administrations exist, they can be
expansive situated as far as what they include or limit. At times definitions incorporated many
kinds of UDW, for example, work performed yet not proclaimed to government backed
retirement specialists, neglected commitments and charges and neglected recordkeeping
commitments, and entirely undeclared monetary exercises in others definitions were centred on
unambiguous exercises, for instance formal correspondences to the important specialists toward
the start of the business relationship (Franić, 2019).
Based on the data gave in the factsheets, official or legitimate definitions utilized by
Member States might incorporate meanings of 'UDW' explicitly and additionally other ideas like
undeclared business, unlawful work and illegal work. In 11 nations public meanings of at least
one of these ideas were distinguished. Among the excess nations with no legitimate or official
public definitions, three report the utilization of worldwide definitions (counting the
Commission's definition), in a further six UDW is examined in the setting of the shadow
economy, and in four UDW is characterized by other important public specialists (Hazakis,
2021).
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