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Title: Informal employment in a growing and globalizing low-income country

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: 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.

Url: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151051

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Authors: McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik,

Periodical (Full): American Economic Review

Issue: 5

Volume: 105

Pages: 545-550

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

Countries: Vietnam