Abstract

The development of informal sektor in many cities in Indonesia, interests many
scholars to analyze it. This research tries to describe and analyze the phenomena of
under employment and gender discrimination in the informal sektor at Surakarta.
This research aims is to analyze the effects of education level, work experience and
gender to productivity. The measurement of productivity uses level of income. This
research tries to test the model proposed by Mincer (1974) and Jones (2001). The
model contains of four variables, they are: level of education, work experience and
gender as the independent variable, while level of income is the dependent variable.
To test our hypotheses we use double log econometric models.
The setting of this research is micro retail entrepreneur or in Indonesia they
called PKL. PKL which become our respondents are those who locate in three PKL
center in Surakarta. Their location at around Monument 45, Manahan Stadium and
Kotta Barat field. Our sampling method is purposive-sampling method and we
interviewed 100 respondents to complete the data. The result shows that there are
no positive correlation between level of education and gender to level of income.
While work experience seems to have a positive effect to level of income. It
concludes that there is a under employment phenomena in informal sektor at
Surakarta. While the hypotheses which said that there are gender discrimination is
not supported.