Polarización salarial y ocupacional en México: 2005-2017/Wage and occupational polarization in Mexico: 2005-2017

Gonzalo García Ramírez and Gabriela García Ramírez
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Gonzalo García Ramírez: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Gabriela García Ramírez: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C.

Estudios Económicos, 2020, vol. 35, issue 1, 153-188

Abstract: This research analyzes the phenomenon of wage and occupational polarization in the Mexican labor market during the period 2005-2017, based on a division of the labor market into formal and informal employment as well as gender. Through a decomposition by level of skills it is suggested that there is a process of incipient polarization in the formal market and a canonical process of polarization in the informal market. In the same way, the index corroborate an increase in the wage and occupational polarization in the period. Likewise, a breakdown of components shows that labor market segmentation, union weakness, size of establishments and labor discrimination are some of the main causes of wage and occupational polarization in Mexico.

Keywords: polarization; inequality; informal labor markets; discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I32 J46 J71 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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