Socio-Economic Determinants of Urban Informal Sector Employment: A Case Study of District Bahawalpur

Abstract

The present study analyses socio-economic factors that motivate the workers to participate in urban informal sector employment. The study focuses on the urban area of District Bahawalpur. The authors collected their data by conducting a household survey during 2012. A sample of 506 participants of formal and informal sectors is selected in the urban areas of District Bahawalpur. By using logit model, the study results indicate that education, gender, marital status, skill training, parents’ education, household size and rural-urban migration are the main factors which influence urban informal sector employment in District Bahawalpur.