期刊名称：International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management
电子版ISSN：2395-5252
出版年度：2020
卷号：2
期号：12
页码：695-699
DOI：10.35629/5252-0212470472
语种：English
出版社：IJAEM JOURNAL
摘要：Women‟s participation in the labour market varies greatly across countries. Female labour force participation plays an important role for the development of an economy. The participation of women is the outcome of various macro and individual factors. Given the complex nature of female labour force participation in developing countries, it is important to analyse the socio-economic factors influencing the decision of women to engage in the labour market. Against this backdrop the present study is an attempt to investigate the factors influencing the participation of the married women in the informal sector. In the developing countries informal employment is generally a larger source of employment. The study is based on an individual survey conducted in a village (namely Kesharghar from Hura block) of Purulia district, West Bengal. The findings of our study highlight that in case of informal sector participation does not significantly depend on formal education. The regressors like number of child, non-labour income and health expenditure etc. have significant impact on the probability of a woman being employed in informal sector works. As number of child increases probability of the participation in informal sector increases on the other hand it is inversely related with non labour income and health expenditure. To our knowledge not much of works in this direction was done in the context of West Bengal.
