Abstract

VARELA-LLAMAS, Rogelio; CASTILLO-PONCE, Ramón A.  and  OCEGUEDA-HERNANDEZ, Juan Manuel. Formal and Informal Employment in Mexico: a Discriminant Analysis. Pap. poblac [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.78, pp.111-140. ISSN 2448-7147.

This paper applies discriminant analysis methodology to explore how variables are two different groups of workers, with each other with formal employment and informal employment. Using microdata from the National Survey of Occupation and Employment to study household heads of the Mexican economy during the third quarter of 2005, 2009 and 2012. The interest in considering a quarter of stability, crisis and recovery, responds to the concern of knowing to what extent changes the relative weight of the classifying variables indiscriminant scores estimated by the model. From all socioeconomic variables are addressed, it is determined that the employment contract, employment by size of establishment, years of schooling, type of locality and the process of finding a new job, help to discriminate between the two groups of workers. It is also found that changing economic environment itself affects the magnitude of the coefficients standardized moderately.

Keywords : Labor market; formal and informal employment; analysis.

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