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A NOTE ON INFORMALITY IN THE LABOUR MARKET
Author(s) -
Khamis Melanie
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1804
Subject(s) - economics , social security , labour economics , productivity , test (biology) , set (abstract data type) , economic growth , market economy , paleontology , computer science , biology , programming language
Informality in the labour market is far from clearly defined in the development literature. To understand the nature of informality in terms of the legalistic and the productivity view, this paper makes an empirical contribution to the debate. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the informality dimensions in the Mexican labour market, employing a rich labour market data set. A substantial overlap between the current social security coverage, contracts and individual's job history is found. Moreover, age, education, marital status and scores in the Raven's test, an ability measure, are significant determinants for the various forms of informality. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.