In Mexico after 1980, wages and salaries stagnated while returns to capital increased. This article analyses the causes of this phenomenon during the 1980-2000. It suggests that the opening to foreign trade ought to have constituted a considerable force for raising wages and diminishing profits. The existence of an unlimited labor supply, however, impeded the rise in incomes that the opening to foreign trade would otherwise have brought about and transformed the rise in productivity resulting from technological modernization into, mainly, increasing returns on capital. Also suggests that the expansion of the qualified workforce, which is seen across all sectors, is not a consequence of generalized technological advance raising demand for mo...
Throughout this article different theories and experiences on labor flexibility in Mexico are presen...
Since the 1970s, the major capitalist economies have a profitability crisis that led to internationa...
One of the objectives stated in the preamble of the offi cial text of the North American Free Trade ...
The main objective of the article is to describe and explain the critical labor situation faced by t...
In the mid 1980s, Mexico undertook major trade reform, privatization and deregulation. This coincide...
The economic globalization that began in the late 1970s and early 1980s has generated job insecurity...
Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. ...
This article analyzes the effects of trade openness on the Mexican labor market. For this, we estima...
The article discusses the factors that influence the growth of the Mexican economy and one of them w...
Si bien el crecimiento de la productividad en México ha sido prácticamente nulo entre las dos última...
This article analyzed wage inequality among workers in Mexico and its regions, explained by technolo...
This article analyzes the impact and effectiveness of the Mexican labor retraining program for unemp...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of cyclical and structural factors on t...
The economic reforms applied in the region during the 1980s and 1990s created expectations, for whic...
Abstract. In this paper, I examine the impacts of trade and investment liberalization on the wage st...
Throughout this article different theories and experiences on labor flexibility in Mexico are presen...
Since the 1970s, the major capitalist economies have a profitability crisis that led to internationa...
One of the objectives stated in the preamble of the offi cial text of the North American Free Trade ...
The main objective of the article is to describe and explain the critical labor situation faced by t...
In the mid 1980s, Mexico undertook major trade reform, privatization and deregulation. This coincide...
The economic globalization that began in the late 1970s and early 1980s has generated job insecurity...
Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. ...
This article analyzes the effects of trade openness on the Mexican labor market. For this, we estima...
The article discusses the factors that influence the growth of the Mexican economy and one of them w...
Si bien el crecimiento de la productividad en México ha sido prácticamente nulo entre las dos última...
This article analyzed wage inequality among workers in Mexico and its regions, explained by technolo...
This article analyzes the impact and effectiveness of the Mexican labor retraining program for unemp...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of cyclical and structural factors on t...
The economic reforms applied in the region during the 1980s and 1990s created expectations, for whic...
Abstract. In this paper, I examine the impacts of trade and investment liberalization on the wage st...
Throughout this article different theories and experiences on labor flexibility in Mexico are presen...
Since the 1970s, the major capitalist economies have a profitability crisis that led to internationa...
One of the objectives stated in the preamble of the offi cial text of the North American Free Trade ...