An Analysis on Gross Flows of Workers in Mexico

Roberto Gallardo Del Ange ()
Additional contact information
Roberto Gallardo Del Ange: Universidad Veracruzana, México

Economía: teoría y práctica, 2019, vol. 50, issue 1, 145-172

Abstract: This paper contains a comparative analysis on gross flows of workers in Mexico considering the concepts of informal sector and informal work included in the Mexican National Survey of Occupations and Employment (ENOE). We estimated the flows and transitions for twelve flows from and into four labour status: Formal Employment (EF), informal employment (EI), unemployment (U) and inactivity (Not-in-the labour force or simply N), and estimated twice the flows in order to account separately for workers in the informal sector and those in the new category of informal employment. Both analyses also account for flows and transitions by groups of age and gender. A cyclical analysis is included in order to observe the behaviour of the flows and transitions over the business cycle. The analysis confirms that female and young workers accounted for the largest changes in the level of gross flows and transitions probabilities. The cyclical analysis shows that both concepts used for measuring labour informality are akin. Almost all gross flows into and out of unemployment are counter-cyclical and female workers still are the least affected by the business cycle. With the new concept of informal work all transitions into informal work became pro-cyclical while those into formal employment are not significant anymore.

Keywords: Gross labour flows; informality; cyclical flows of labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E26 J62 J63 J64 Y (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.24275/ETYPUAM/NE/502019/Gallardo (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ety:journl:v:50:y:2019:i:1:p:145-172

Access Statistics for this article

Economía: teoría y práctica is currently edited by Georgina Alenka Guzmán Chávez

More articles in Economía: teoría y práctica from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Georgina Alenka Guzmán Chávez ().