Determinants of informal employment among working mothers in Mexico

Rodin, Danielle; McNeill, Kristen; Vite-León, Norma; Heymann, Jody

doi:10.1080/13668803.2011.598730

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“…They have low incomes, live at subsistence level and have no link and interaction with or access to government. They have no voice, no recognition and no visibility [Rodin, et al (2012)]. Being the only work opportunity for the workers who decide to join the informal sector, it is considered as the optimal decision of the worker [Chaudhuri and Mukhopadhyay (2010)].…”

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Is Informal Sector Employment Marginal to Formal Sector Growth?

Tahir¹,

Tahir²

2012

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Pakistan has adopted a neoliberal regime to open the economy to global competition and reduce the role of the state. This directional change brought increased flow of overseas remittances, speculative investment, and consumerism. Consequently, the economy in mid-2000s grew but commodity-producing sector contracted. Public sector spending has been falling, especially on social sectors. There are inadequate provisions for social security and employment based income guarantees. However, this growth and stability was short lived and there is now a fragile state and slowing economy. In the absence of an effective regulatory role of the state, and due to the failure in developing a long-term strategy to harness the labour force potential, there is a huge informal sector existing side by side with the formal economy. Almost 22 million of the employed labour force is earning its livelihood in streets and the government has no record of it. The informal workers can be categorised as self-employed workers and wage workers, doing diversified jobs from petty traders to small producers and from rickshaw driver to shoe shiners. It is difficult to measure the value added contribution of the informal sector in Pakistan. Indirect estimation approaches on the basis of employment and hours worked have been used to estimate the contribution of informal economy. For instance, Idris (2008) estimates the share at 36.8 percent of GNP, which is significant. Arby, Malik and Hanif (2010) measured the size of informal economy in Pakistan through a monetary approach. They find that the size has declined considerably.

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Section: International Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Informal Sector Employment Marginal to Formal Sector Growth?

Tahir¹,

Tahir²

2012

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“…However, the latter have become relatively less attractive due to newly introduced policies that provide the traditional benefits of contributory social security to informal workers at zero or virtually no cost, such as the universal health insurance ("Seguro Popular") introduced in 2002 and the aforementioned daycare program (Conti and Ginja, 2017;Bosch and Campos-Vazquez, 2014). It might be the case that women decide to enter the informal sector since it offers more flexibility than the formal sector to balance work and household activities (Perry et al, 2007;Rodin et al, 2012;Heath, 2017). Informal employment might provide the possibility to take care of the children while working and the fixed costs of work might be lower in informal compared to formal employment (Heath, 2017).…”

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Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment

Schmieder

2020

SSRN Journal

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Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor market. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work. The presence of grandparents and low wealth appear to be important. Econometric approaches that allow extrapolating from this complier-specific effect indicate that the response in informal employment is non-negative for the entire sample.

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“…Most scholarship on gender and work in Mexico focuses on non‐career tracks in manufacturing (Bank Muñoz ; Salzinger ) or home‐based and other informal work (Benería and Feldman ; Rodin et al. ), although recent research examines the service sector and knowledge work (Hernández Romo ). This analysis offers unique insights because it includes women and men in professional positions, adding to our theorizing on work in the global south (Muller and Rowell ; Villarreal and Yu ).…”

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Organizational Commitment over the Gendered Life Course at aMexican Company

Brumley

2014

Sociological Inquiry

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Mexican workplaces have changed significantly in response to the global marketplace by restructuring, downsizing, and implementing new production and administrative processes. This case study analyzes organizational commitment at a Mexican-owned multinational corporation within the context of workplace transformation. Based on indepth interviews with 83 women and men, I identify two sources of commitment-family-friendly and career-friendly employment practices. Using the framework of the gendered life course, I show commitment fluctuated given the employees' stage in the life course. This study builds on the gender and work research by exploring how individual attributes of gender and parental status contribute to organizational commitment, but are underscored by the complexity of workplace context.

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Determinants of informal employment among working mothers in Mexico

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Is Informal Sector Employment Marginal to Formal Sector Growth?

Is Informal Sector Employment Marginal to Formal Sector Growth?

Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment

Organizational Commitment over the Gendered Life Course at aMexican Company

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