Transitions between informal and formal employment: results from a worker survey in Bangladesh

Table 13 Transitions from self-employment

		To:
	Private employee	Casual worker	Self-employment
Age: 26–35	− 0.298*** (0.0739)	0.0484 (0.0675)	0.250*** (0.0887)
Age: 36–45	− 0.196** (0.0923)	0.0619 (0.0862)	0.134 (0.106)
Age: 46–55	− 0.170 (0.128)	0.0692 (0.0998)	0.101 (0.144)
Age: 56+	0.385 (140.2)	− 1.441 (398.9)	1.056 (258.7)
Education: Class 6–9	0.106 (0.0854)	− 0.110 (0.0813)	0.00351 (0.0984)
Education: Class 10 and SSC	0.139* (0.0769)	− 0.0890 (0.0726)	− 0.0499 (0.0927)
Education: High school certificate or diploma	0.799 (95.24)	− 1.639 (271.0)	0.840 (175.8)
Education: Bachelors or higher	0.829 (63.71)	− 1.755 (181.3)	0.926 (117.6)
Vocational training w/o certification	− 0.297 (0.181)	0.353** (0.161)	− 0.0562 (0.216)
Vocational training w/ certification	0.162 (0.152)	0.239** (0.114)	− 0.401** (0.185)
Male	0.109 (0.188)	0.116 (0.200)	− 0.226 (0.234)
Log(monthly wage)	− 0.0425 (0.0278)	0.00255 (0.0262)	0.0400 (0.0357)
Tenure	0.0006 (0.0065)	− 0.0010 (0.0051)	0.0005 (0.0069)
Found preferred job	0.377*** (0.117)	0.0753 (0.0910)	− 0.453*** (0.164)
Preferred self-employment	0.168 (59.81)	− 1.500 (170.2)	1.333 (110.4)
Other reason for separation	0.0794 (0.0695)	− 0.0216 (0.0571)	− 0.0578 (0.0749)
Observations	171	171	171

Note: Marginal effects from multinomial regressions for workers transitioning away from self-employment. Casual worker includes day laborers, seasonal workers, domestic workers, and apprentices, interns or trainees. The omitted categories are age 25 or less, primary education or less (class 5 or less), female, no vocational training, and involuntary separation. Other controls included in the regression analysis are the industry and size of the previous employer. Sampling weights are applied. Standard errors in parentheses. ***, ** and * denote that the p values is less than 0.01, 0.05, or 0.1, respectively