Formal and Informal Sector Working Women: A Comparative Analysis of Their Contribution in Family Budget

Abstract

The paper estimated the comparison of formal and informal sector working women (16-60 years) contribution in their household budget. Employing the OLS model on 936 observations, it is found that married women (in formal and informal sector), women as head of household (in formal and informal sector), having assets (in informal sector), and belonging to nuclear families (in formal and informal sector) are contributing more to their household budget. There exists also a positive relationship between the contribution of women and unemployed husbands (only for informal sector), presence of infants (only for informal sector) in the household, and utilization of loan by household (only for informal sector). The presence of school-age children (only for informal sector), presence of adults (male and female) (only for informal sector), and husband’s educational status (only for informal sector) negatively affects the contribution. It is proposed to intervene by government for education of women, provision of assets and loan by public sector.