Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Relationship Between Informality and System Support: A Comparison of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Mexico and Costa Rica

本研究调查了墨西哥和哥斯达黎加非正规或正规工作部门的就业是否会影响人们对政府持有利态度或选择参与政治活动的程度。非正规部门包括以小规模劳动密集型工作为基础的经济活动，不受国家监管的保护。这项研究在墨西哥和哥斯达黎加进行了大规模调查。这些数据提供了非正规部门和正规部门工人的系统比较。随着拉丁美洲非正式部门的规模和增长，调查结果涉及政治上对民主理想的依恋的重要问题。

This study investigates whether employment in either informal or formal work sectors affects the extent to which people have favorable attitudes toward government or choose to participate in political activity in Mexico and Costa Rica. The informal sector includes economic activity based on small-scale, labor intensive work and lies outside the protection of state regulation. The study uses mass surveys in Mexico and Costa Rica. These data provide systematic comparisons of informal and formal sector workers. With the size and growth of the informal sector in Latin America the findings address important questions of political attachment to democratic ideals.