Evaluation of the Factors Causing Informal Employment by DEMATEL Based Analytical Network Process Method

Abstract

For many years, informal employment is an important problem in Turkey. Especially in recent years, various sanctions and incentives have been applied to prevent/reduce this problem. In this study, MCDM (Multiple Criteria Decision Making) methods are utilized to determine the factors that cause informal employment using expert opinions of five Social Security Supervisors working against informal employment in the Social Security Institution of Turkey. Specifically, DEMATEL (The Decision-Making Experiment and Evaluation Laboratory) is used to determine the relations of the factors with each other, and the Analytical Network Process (ANP) is used to determine the weights associated to the factors. The findings indicate that while economic factors prevail to be the foremost essential factors, unemployment is determined to be the most critical sub-factor among the macro factors that lead to informal employment.