Exploring Pushing And Pulling Factors For Women To Be Engaged In Informal Sector:A Case Study On Street Vending In Addis Ababa
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2020-06
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A.A.U
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Informal sector mainly street vending nowadays has become a source of job for many women. Thu,s a woman in Addis Ababa who lacks a position in the formal sector may participate in the informal sectors. Among the category of informal sector, street vending is the major one in whichmany women are involved. It is an important source of income for many poorer segment of the society in the urban area. Considering this, the main purpose of of this study the exploring the pushing and pulling factors for women continue to be engaged in the informal sectors of Addis Ababa. The study is an exploratory study utilizing a qualitative method. It has used a nonprobability sampling, convenience sampling to select the sample. The target populations are individual street vendors hence the unit of analysis is an individual street vendors. Street vendors are chosen to represent the most visible form of the informal sector operators in Addis Ababa purposely. From the study result it is revealed that major pushing factors for women to be engaged in the informal sectors are Social responsibility mainly associated with divorce and taking responsibilities of children, absence of access to join school, economic problems mainly survival issues, freedom to own their business, inherited business and peer pressure. On the other hand, once women engaged in the informal sector there are so many factors that pull them to continue to be engaged in the informal sector. The major ones are having no option because of lack of sufficient capital to move to other sectors, change of expectation, intent to have their own business, to keep customers, social interaction each other. Recommendation and future studies are forwarded
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A Thesis Submitted to Addis Ababa University College of Business and Economics, Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Management, Specialization in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
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women’s, informal sector,, Street vending, pushing and pulling factors