### Missing * informal/formal switches and stats ### [ ] vandeWalle2004 results: * looks at causes of poverty and incidence and participation in rural off-farm activities (1993-1998) * some common causative factors, education, region of residence * however generally processes determining both are not the same * participation in rural non-farm market economy allows *some* route out of poverty but certainly not all ### [ ] McCaig2013 results: * analyzing structural economic changes 1990-2008 * structural changes account for 1/3rd of labor productivity growth (which was ~5.1% per year) * move from agriculture toward services and manufacturing, from household businesses to firms in enterprise sector, reallocation of workers from state-owned to private domestic and foreign owned firms * especially manufacturing grew (8->14% of workforce) primary determinants: changes in trade policy, expansion of employment in foreign owned firms, declining role of state owned enterprises ### [ ] McCaig2014 results: * effects of US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (positive export shock), due to large US tariff reductions on Vietnamese exports * increased 5% share of manufacturing workers * slightly increased gap of labor productivity ### [ ] McCaig2015 results: * effects of economic changes to workforce transitions informal -> formal * younger workers, esp migrants, more likely to work in formal sector and stay in it * decline in aggregate share in informal employment bc of changes between and within birth cohorts * younger, educated, male, urban workers more likely to switch than others * little educated, older, female, rural workers least likely to switch * formalization coincides with occupational upgrading