Choices and Constraints: The Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico
基于2015年墨西哥劳动力调查数据，研究发现80%的城市非正规工人偏好有社保的正规工作，但受教育程度和家庭责任影响其意愿和机会，揭示了劳动力市场分割与正规岗位配给现象。
Using a special module of the 2015 Mexican Labour Force Survey with information on workers’ preferences for jobs with social security coverage, it is found that 80 per cent of informal workers in large urban areas would prefer to work in a job that provides them with such coverage. The estimation of a discrete choice econometric model which distinguishes between wanting a formal job and the probability of getting one shows that schooling increases the chances of being hired in formal employment and of having higher earnings in it. Women with greater responsibilities at home are less likely to want formal employment, and they also face a lower probability of being hired in such jobs. The findings indicate the segmentation of Mexican labour markets and the rationing of formal jobs, together with the existence of workers who voluntarily participate in informal employment. However, the estimated fraction of involuntary informal workers is quite high.