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

In: Labour Productivity and Flexibility

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  • Francisco Zapata

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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.

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  • Francisco Zapata, 1997. "The Paradox of Flexibility and Rigidity: The Mexican Labour Market in the 1990s," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Edward J. Amadeo & Susan Horton (ed.), Labour Productivity and Flexibility, chapter 4, pages 113-150, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25977-9_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25977-9_4
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