Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust

Although major advances have been made in relation to explaining the supply side of the informal economy, this is not the case for the demand-side of the informal economy. This study analyses for the first time the purchasers of undeclared goods and services in the healthcare sector. To evaluate the...

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Autores principales:	Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, Colin C. Williams, Alexandru Maxim, Iuliana Claudia Stoian, Oana Carmen Țugulea, Adrian V. Horodnic
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	undeclared healthcare goods and services informal economy horizontal trust vertical trust consumer behaviour Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2a3ec15d69004b189faa5668099ae6bb2021-11-11T16:40:45ZKnowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust10.3390/ijerph1821115611660-46011661-7827https://doaj.org/article/2a3ec15d69004b189faa5668099ae6bb2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11561https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601Although major advances have been made in relation to explaining the supply side of the informal economy, this is not the case for the demand-side of the informal economy. This study analyses for the first time the purchasers of undeclared goods and services in the healthcare sector. To evaluate the purchase of undeclared healthcare goods and services, logistic regression analysis and robustness tests are used on 3048 interviews in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta. The finding is that an important share of the purchasers make this type of purchase unknowingly. However, no difference in terms of socio-economics characteristics of those who knowingly and those who unknowingly made purchases of undeclared healthcare goods and services was identified. Meanwhile a significant influence of trust (in government and in other citizens) has been identified in relation to those who made these purchases knowingly. As such, policy measures aimed at decreasing unknowing purchases and at nurturing trust are discussed in the concluding section.Ioana Alexandra HorodnicColin C. WilliamsAlexandru MaximIuliana Claudia StoianOana Carmen ȚuguleaAdrian V. HorodnicMDPI AGarticleundeclared healthcare goods and servicesinformal economyhorizontal trustvertical trustconsumer behaviourMedicineRENInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11561, p 11561 (2021)
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spellingShingle	undeclared healthcare goods and services informal economy horizontal trust vertical trust consumer behaviour Medicine R Ioana Alexandra Horodnic Colin C. Williams Alexandru Maxim Iuliana Claudia Stoian Oana Carmen Țugulea Adrian V. Horodnic Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust
description	Although major advances have been made in relation to explaining the supply side of the informal economy, this is not the case for the demand-side of the informal economy. This study analyses for the first time the purchasers of undeclared goods and services in the healthcare sector. To evaluate the purchase of undeclared healthcare goods and services, logistic regression analysis and robustness tests are used on 3048 interviews in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta. The finding is that an important share of the purchasers make this type of purchase unknowingly. However, no difference in terms of socio-economics characteristics of those who knowingly and those who unknowingly made purchases of undeclared healthcare goods and services was identified. Meanwhile a significant influence of trust (in government and in other citizens) has been identified in relation to those who made these purchases knowingly. As such, policy measures aimed at decreasing unknowing purchases and at nurturing trust are discussed in the concluding section.
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author	Ioana Alexandra Horodnic Colin C. Williams Alexandru Maxim Iuliana Claudia Stoian Oana Carmen Țugulea Adrian V. Horodnic
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title	Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust
title_short	Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust
title_full	Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust
title_fullStr	Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust
title_full_unstemmed	Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust
title_sort	knowing and unknowing purchases of undeclared healthcare goods and services: the role of vertical and horizontal trust
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publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/2a3ec15d69004b189faa5668099ae6bb
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Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust

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