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Item Restricted The income and decision function of workers in the informal sector(2014-12) Narcisco, Francine A.; Rivera, Rita Angela M.; Carlos, Fidelina N.As many workers continue to enter the informal sector there is a need to study the characteristics of informal sectors and their decision to engage in entrepreneurial activities despite economic growth. Using the FIES, the paper attempts to determine the effects of specific factors on income determination and the probability of a household to engage in the informal sector. Results have shown that households residing in regions other than the NCR have a higher probability to engage in entrepreneurial activities and urban areas have a bigger probability to have higher incomes. All sectors except have higher incomes and lower probability to engage in entrepreneurial activities compared to the agricultural sector. Furthermore, heads with more years of schooling, especially those who finished college, have higher incomes and are unlikely to engage in entrepreneurial activities, a result that is consistent with Schultz' hypothesis.Item Restricted Estimating tax revenues lost from the agricultural informal sector through examining the margins in the informal supply chain and the value of production in the retail level(2012-01) Aloria, Madeiline Joy J.; Lozada, Kristine Emmanuelle A.A lot of relevant studies have been made regarding the reasons behind different fiscal issues that the country faces. The focus points of these studies include studying the potential benefits of improving our fiscal imbalances through fixing our general tax administration and collection since inefficiencies exist in unregulated and unmonitored areas of economy, specifically the informal sector. Despite the finding that the country's informal sector accounts for almost half of the country's labor force, not all transactions of the said sector are recorded or tracked; in order to help increase government revenues, these sectors must be scrutinized Efforts should be made in order to measure government revenues foregone and the potential revenues to be collected from taxpayers if the system becomes fixed The main objective of this paper is to estimate the amount of potential government revenues foregone due to the existence of the informal agricultural sector and consequently to propose to the government which specific parts of the supply chain should be taxed in the said sector. This can be achieved by measuring economic activities and estimating the marginal cost in the production of related goods and services. Important requisites are the full understanding of the nature of activities in the sector, informal sector enterprises, and the utilization of estimates of margins per crop for every level of the supply chain as well as of total employment which are readily available from the surveys conducted by the concerned government agencies. The target result connected to the said aims is to increase government revenues from tax.Item Restricted A socio-economic profile of cart-pushing(1988-02-19) Cruz, Philis Theresa C.; Fabella, Raul V.Item Restricted The informal service sector: a case study of Metro Manila automotive repair shoes(1988-10) Panga, Dennis O.; Valdez, Winston E.; Tan, EditaItem Restricted Enforcement and the informal sector: evidence from the Philippines(2019-07) Cariño-Francisco, Emma B.Studies show that the existence of the informal sector may be symptomatic of underlying institutional and structural frailties, which may ultimately hinder long-run growth. Using probit regression analysis on pooled (2,661 firms) and panel (750 firms) datasets from the 2009 and 2015 World Bank Enterprise Surveys for the Philippines, this study finds that institutions determine firm behavior. Firms that perceive manifestations of enforcement mechanism failures as obstacles to firm operations, such as corruption, bribery and inaccessible land are more likely to engage in informal activities. Apart from highlighting the importance of strong institutions, these results also lay the basis for further research on governance efficiency and its effects on firm behavior.Item Restricted Women in the informal sector: effects of education on income(2001-10) Caballero, Ma. Concepcion G.; Tedor, Lara Marie T.