This report analyzes the jobless recovery phenomenon observed in Mexico during the current and previous crisis. It analyzes the role of job creation and destruction in the economic cycle and researches different causes that might explain a jobless recovery. Some of these are structural change,...

Objective – Tanzania, Mexico, and the United States are at vastly different points on the economic development scale. Yet, their health systems can be classified as “developing”: they do not live up to their potential, considering the resources available to them. The three, representing...

The goal of this paper is to estimate (with the data available) the impact of tourism as a factor of shared growth at the local or municipal level in Mexico. This country provides an excellent research example due to its socioeconomic characteristics, the fact that tourism is an important...

With a population of 113 million and a per-capita Gross Domestic Product, or GDP of US$10,064 (current U.S. dollars), Mexico is one of the largest and highest-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The country has benefited from sustained economic growth during the last...

This paper provides a set of measurements of the actual benefits and costs of the general old age retirement plan provided to individuals by the Mexican pension system (MPS), which is necessary to evaluate the decisions by workers to contribute to social security (i.e. work in the formal sector)...

This book describes and analyzes social programs in Mexico in a comprehensive way. The welfare state has exceptional features in each country, related to its own labor market and other institutions. The book evaluates the structure and regulation of the Mexican social protection system. It...

Las reformas a la Ley Federal del Trabajo (LFT) de México se han propuesto por varios años. Esta nota define que el principal objetivo de una reforma debe ser mejorar el marco para la celebración de contratos de manera que se optimice la generación de capital humano y se disminuya el costo...