Informal employment and Foreign direct investment in Pakistan

Abstract

In this study we analyze informal employment and foreign direct investment in Pakistan. The purpose of this study is to determine whether foreign direct investment impact on informal employment or not. The data used in this study is secondary data which has been taken from SBP, WB and FBS. In this study we use sample of 30 years from 1980to2010. We use OLS model to regress the data. Variable used in this study are Informal employment (dependent variable) and service sector, manufacture sector, FDI, electricity consumption, tax, export receipts, education level (independent variable. According to our empirical result there is positive relationship between informal