DETERMINANTES DA RENDA DO SETOR TERCIÁRIO INFORMAL: UMA ANÁLISE DA REGIÃO METROPOLITANA DE SALVADOR

Abstract

This paper approaches the informal sector of services of the Metropolitan Region of Salvador, an important segment of the labor market, and analyzes, for the PED data basis, the main implications of personal attributes over the earning of workers of this sector. The econometric results show that schooling, experience and age are important variables for the determination of the earning of these workers. The econometric analysis reveals that if there is racial discrimination in this sector it is not enough evidenced, but confirms the existen[1]ce of discrimination against women, which obtain earnings that are characteristicaly lower than that obtained by men in the same sector. The econometric results also show that the ownership of physical capital in the informal sector of services is not important for the earning determination of workers in this sector, but confirms a direct relationship that exists between scale of undertaking and earning, such that, the larger the undertaking size, the higher the earning obtained by workers in this sector..