Estimación del impacto de factores socioeconómicos sobre el empleo informal en el mercado de trabajo mexicano

Abstract

The variations shown by informal employment in the Mexican labor market can be explained considering various social and economic factors. The interest in studying informal employment arises through the observation of its great magnitude as a proportion of the employed population, which is approximately 60% nationally for the period from 2005 to 2014. Because informality It has several characteristics, or in other words, it is heterogeneous, the estimation of the impact of socio-economic factors is made considering its classification in informal type independent employment and dependent type informal employment. In turn, the factors belong to a dualistic or institutionalist theoretical vision. The methodology selected for the estimation is a fixed effects model with panel data that allows us to conclude that the socioeconomic factors with the greatest impact on the levels of informal employment in the Mexican labor market are the education of the population and the sufficiency of the modern sector or formal to capture employment.