Mexico in the 1990s: The Main Cross-Sectional Facts

Binelli, Chiara; Attanasio, Orazio

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“…As such, it has been widely used for studies of the Mexican labour market, including several studies on changes in the wage distribution (e.g. Verhoogen 2008;Binelli and Attanasio 2010;Bosch and Manacorda 2010;Binelli 2015). For all individuals at least 12 years old, the survey contains detailed employment information with several questions on occupational status, type and characteristics of employment, characteristics and sector of main and secondary job, contract type, number of hours worked, monthly wages, unemployment status and duration.…”

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“…The sample selection criteria follow Binelli and Attanasio (2010): I consider all adults aged between 25 and 60 that are actively working at the time of the interview in all municipalities included in the fourth quarter of each survey year between 1987 and 2002. I adjust wage data for inflation by using the Mexican national CPI of June 2002.…”

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“…The descriptive evidence presented by Binelli and Attanasio (2010) is interesting but is neither complete nor informative of the direction of causation. First, how did the changes in informality contribute to the changes in wage inequality?…”

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“…Among Latin American countries, Mexico provides an interesting setting to study the relationship between wage inequality and informality since the co-movement between changes in the share of the informal workers and in wage inequality was particularly evident. Binelli and Attanasio (2010) present a descriptive analysis showing how in the 1990s changes in informality tracked closely changes in wage inequality: in the first half of the 1990s, both the proportion of workers employed in the informal sector and wage inequality increased, reached a peak in 1995 and decreased afterwards.…”

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Wage inequality and informality: evidence from Mexico

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While several studies have documented the expansion of the informal sector and its detrimental impact on development, few have noted that informality and wage inequality tend to move together. Using Mexico as a case study, I show that between 1987 and 2002 wage inequality within informal workers accounted for over 60 % of total wage inequality and that the Mexican financial crisis of the mid-1990s increased the share of informal workers and, via this, wage inequality. The results provide supportive evidence that in Mexico higher wage dispersion is one of the channels through which informality negatively affects development. JEL codes: O17, J31, C36.

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“…To measure informal employment, we follow the literature for the Mexican case (Brandt, 2011;Binelli and Attanasio, 2010;Bosch and Maloney, 2006), and consider a worker to be informal when he or she does not have access to a health care institution (public or private) granted by his or her workplace. By law, employees must be registered with the national social security agency (IMSS), so if they are not registered, they are then informal according to the ILO (2003) definition 2 .…”

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The Determinants of Informality in Mexico's States

Dougherty

Escobar

2013

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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JT03337967Complete document available on OLIS in its original format This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. ECO/WKP(2013) Informality has important implications for productivity, economic growth, and the inequality of income. In recent years, the extent of informal employment has increased in many of Mexico's states, though highly heterogeneously. The substantial differences across states in terms of informal employment can be helpful in explaining differences in economic growth outcomes. This paper studies the determinants of informal employment using states' diverging outcomes to identify causal factors, taking into account potential endogeneity. The results suggest that multiple factors explain differences in informal employment across states, including per capita income, the quality of labour skills, differences in the prevalence of microenterprises, the cost to start a business, restrictions on foreign investment, the rule of law and incidence of corruption.JEL classification codes: J21, O17, O54. Keywords: Informal employment, microenterprises, regulatory policy, sub-national policy analysis. ************ Les déterminants de l'informalité dans les États du MexiqueL'informalité a des implications importantes sur la productivité, la croissance économique et l'inégalité des revenus. Ces dernières années, la mesure de l'emploi informel a augmenté dans la plupart des États du Mexique, bien que de manière très hétérogène. Les différences importantes entre les États en matière d'emploi informel peuvent être utiles pour expliquer les différences dans les résultats de la croissance économique. Cet article étudie les déterminants de l'emploi informel en utilisant les résultats divergents des États pour identifier les facteurs causaux, en tenant compte de l'endogénéité potentielle. Les résultats suggèrent que plusieurs facteurs expliquent les différences dans l'emploi informel à travers les États, y compris le revenu par habitant, la qualité de la main-d'oeuvre, les différences dans la prévalence des microentreprises, le coût pour démarrer une entreprise, les restrictions sur les investissements étrangers, l'État de droit et l'incidence de la corruption.Codes JEL : J21, O17, O54. Mots clés : L'emploi informel, micro-entreprises, la politique de réglementation, l'analyse politique sousnationale. © OECD (2013)You can copy, download or print OECD content for your own use, and you can include excerpts from OECD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of OECD as source and copyright owner is given. All requests for commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to rights@oecd.org.

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Empirically probing the quantity–quality model

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Malde

2013

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This paper estimates the causal effects of family size on girls' education in Mexico, exploiting prenatal son preference as a source of random variation in the propensity to have more children within an Instrumental Variables framework. It finds no evidence of family size having an adverse effect on education. The paper then weakens the identification assumption and allows for the possibility that the instrument is invalid. It finds that the effects of family size on girls' schooling remain extremely modest at most. Families that are relatively large compensate for reduced per child resources by increasing maternal labour supply.

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Mexico in the 1990s: The Main Cross-Sectional Facts

Cited by 45 publications

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Wage inequality and informality: evidence from Mexico

Wage inequality and informality: evidence from Mexico

The Determinants of Informality in Mexico's States

Empirically probing the quantity–quality model

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