Replication data for: Informal Employment in a Growing and Globalizing Low-Income Country

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Brian McCaig; Nina Pavcnik

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Project Description

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.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: [Vietnam, labor markets, informality]

JEL Classification:
      E26 Informal Economy; Underground Economy
      F66 Economic Impacts of Globalization: Labor
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J46 Informal Labor Markets
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      P23 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
      P36 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty

Geographic Coverage: Vietnam

Universe: Workers age 20 to 64 in Vietnam

Data Type(s): [survey data, census/enumeration data]

Methodology

Data Source: 1999 Vietnam Population and Housing Census; 2009 Vietnam Population and Housing Census; 2002, 2004, 2006,and 2008 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals,

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