Informal Employment in a Growing and Globalizing Low-income Country / Brian McCaig, Nina Pavcnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCaig, Brian.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Pavcnik, Nina.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20891.

NBER working paper series no. w20891

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.

Summary:

We document several facts about workforce transitions from the informal to the formal sector in Vietnam, a fast growing, industrializing, and low-income country. First, younger workers, particularly migrants, are more likely to work in the formal sector and stay there permanently. Second, the decline in the aggregate share of informal employment occurs through changes between and within birth cohorts. Third, younger, educated, male, and urban workers are more likely to switch to the formal sector than other workers initially in the informal sector. Poorly educated, older, female, rural workers face little prospect of formalization. Fourth, formalization coincides with occupational upgrading.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2015.