The Paradox of Flexibility and Rigidity: The Mexican Labour Market in the 1990s

Francisco Zapata

Chapter 4 in Labour Productivity and Flexibility, 1997, pp 113-150 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The analysis of the links between labour flexibility and productivity in a period of profound economic restructuring such as the one that took place in Mexico between 1982 and 1994 is shaped by the specific, highly idiosyncratic and historically determined characteristics of the Mexican political and economic system. The weight of institutional determinants (irrespective of determinants located in the shopfloor of the enterprise) in the operation of the economic system and thereby on the labour market, condition the process of modernization. At the same time, the country has opened to the international market, privatized state owned companies, reformed the fiscal system, removed subsidies for consumption, adopted a series of rationalization policies in public administration and invested in science and education.

Keywords: Labour Market; Minimum Wage; Total Factor Produc; Labour Relation; Labour Movement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25977-9_4

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