Informal Employment in Indonesia

S. Cuevas, Aleli Rosario, Marissa L. Barcenas, Mina Christian
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The paper attempted to use the February 2007 round of Indonesia’s National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) for a comparative analysis of wages and benefits of formal and informal workers. While Sakernas was not designed for this purpose, the study explored questions in the existing survey that can be used to distinguish formal and informal workers. Because of data limitation, workers were classified as employed informally or “mixed”—a category composed of workers who cannot be identified, with precision, to be engaged in either formal or informal employment. Given this constraint, informal employment was estimated at the minimum to be at 29.1% of total employment in Indonesia. Informal employment is also highly concentrated in rural areas and is prevalent in agriculture and construction sectors. More women are likely to be informally employed than men, and women generally receive lower pay and are mostly unpaid family workers. To the extent possible the study was able to examine informal employment in Indonesia and to identify the gaps in the Sakernas questionnaire that can be addressed in future rounds of the survey for a successful comparative analysis between formal and informal workers.
印度尼西亚的非正式就业
本文试图利用2007年2月印度尼西亚全国劳动力调查(Sakernas)对正式工人和非正式工人的工资和福利进行比较分析。虽然Sakernas不是为此目的而设计的,但该研究探索了现有调查中可用于区分正式和非正式工人的问题。由于数据有限,工人被分类为非正式就业或“混合”就业,即不能精确地确定从事正式或非正式就业的工人。考虑到这一制约因素,估计印尼的非正规就业至少占总就业的29.1%。非正式就业也高度集中在农村地区,普遍存在于农业和建筑部门。非正式就业的妇女可能比男子多,妇女的工资一般较低,而且大多是没有报酬的家庭工人。这项研究尽可能审查了印度尼西亚的非正规就业情况,并查明了Sakernas调查表中的差距,这些差距可以在今后几轮调查中加以解决,以便成功地对正规工人和非正规工人进行比较分析。
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