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Explaining and tackling envelope wages in the Baltic Sea region
2015
Baltic Journal of Management
Purpose The aim of this paper is to advance a new way of explaining and tackling the illegitimate wage practice where employers pay their employees an undeclared (envelope) wage in addition to their formal salary. Drawing upon institutional theory, it is here proposed that envelope wages result from the lack of alignment of a society's formal institutions (i.e., the codified laws and regulations) with its informal institutions (i.e., the socially shared unwritten understandings which reflect
doi:10.1108/bjm-10-2014-0153
fatcat:forhmae3w5botci4gbvtcbxo6q