Arbetsrapport, Institutet för Framtidsstudier - Institute for Futures Studies
No 2011:9:
Bland Rolexklockor och smutsiga trosor: Om skattereduktioner och segmentering på den svenska hushållstjänstemarknaden
Anna Gavanas ()
and Alexander Darin Mattsson
Abstract: This report investigates tax reductions for domestic
services in terms of their effects on the Swedish domestic service sector.
Based on a national survey with managers of domestic ser-vice companies,
the report discusses the composition of the formally registered market for
domestic services, different types of customers, working conditions as well
as consequences from tax reductions. By highlighting perspectives from
formally registered companies, the re-port complements earlier research on
experiences among migrant domestic workers in infor-mal parts of the market
(Gavanas 2010, 2011). It is argued that the domestic service market is
undergoing segmentation, as opposed to the commonplace idea that a formal
sector is replac-ing an informal sector. The report demonstrates continuing
competition from informal actors, and the lack of a necessary connection
between a perceived decline of the informal market, the expansion of the
formal market and continuing informal competition. Furthermore, the re-port
discusses differences among domestic service companies regarding rights,
positions of employees, working conditions and options to decline
“difficult” customers. In addition to a continuum of providers of domestic
services, a continuum of customers is analyzed as well. Customer
preferences and demands are discussed, and the ways in which they are met
by a corresponding continuum of domestic service providers.
Keywords: Domistic service; tax reduction; working condition; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: J42; (follow links to similar papers)
52 pages, November 30, 2011
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