Determinants of informal employment in the Philippines

Date

6-2023

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Economics

College

College of Economics and Management (CEM)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Gideon P. Carnaje

Committee Member

Paul Joseph B. Ramirez, Agham C. Cuevas

Abstract

This study identified the factors that determine informal employment in the Philippines using the recent nationwide surveys. It first presented an informal/formal employment profile for the Philippines and then did a multivariate analysis of the determinants of informal employment.

Given that informally employed are worse off than the formally employed, government policies towards structural transformation (decreased share of informal employment and increased share of formal employment) are needed. The significant positive link between informal employment and having less education, being female, working in a rural area, working in a non-industrial sector, and belonging to a poor household provide some ideas of key directions for an informal employment reduction strategy.

It is important to note however that the present study used data sets that are not specifically collected with making a clear distinction between informal and formal employment in mind. Hence the definitions of informal and formal employment adopted are not conceptually precise and the comprehensive analysis of the determinants of informal employment in the Philippines would have to wait for a survey of informal and formal employment of sufficient complexity.

Language

English

LC Subject

Informal sector (Economics) -- Employees

Location

UPLB College of Economics and Management (CEM)

Call Number

LG 993.5 2023 E2 A24

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