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Changing Jobs in Mexico: Hopping between Formal and Informal Economic Sectors

In: Unemployment - Perspectives and Solutions

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  • Virgilio Partida
  • Maria Edith Pacheco

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We reviewed the discussion on the concept of informal employment in Latin America over the past 40 years. Some of the findings of labor mobility among the formal and informal sectors of the economy are also described. With data from the quarterly panel of the National Occupation and Employment Survey (NOES) of 2014-2016, we analyzed the mobility between eight categories: four of formal employment (non-manual high-skilled, non-manual semi-skilled, manual skilled manual and manual low-skilled), two of informal employment (non-manual and manual), unemployed and not in labor force. We found there is a high mobility among these eight categories, showing that labor markets in Mexico have been unstable in the last quarter century. A more precise analysis is done by dividing the population into three stages of life course: youth (15-24 years of age), early adulthood (25-44 years), and mature adulthood and old age (45-79 years). There is greater mobility in youth and mature adulthood and old age than in early adulthood; and the majority of young and early adult women leaving labor force attribute it to motherhood.

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  • Virgilio Partida & Maria Edith Pacheco, 2017. "Changing Jobs in Mexico: Hopping between Formal and Informal Economic Sectors," Chapters, in: Yang Liu (ed.), Unemployment - Perspectives and Solutions, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:118637
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.69810
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    Keywords

    labor force; formal and informal employments; labor mobility; Mexican workforce; life course;
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    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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