Is it easy joining to formality? A labor trajectories approach in the mexican labor market
Por:
Lara Lara, Jaime, Rojas Huerta, Abigail Vanessa
Publicada:
1 ene 2021
Resumen:
More than half of Mexico's workforce is in informal economy; however,
there are a high number of transitions from informal to formal
employment in the short term, which has been interpreted as evidence
that informality is an alternative to improve well-being. The main
objective of this study is to analyze the employment conditions and job
stability of employees who are inserted into the formal market, after
starting their labor trajectory in the informal market. We use the
Modulo de Trayectorias Laborales (MOTRAL) 2015, a survey with national
representativeness of Mexican urban areas. We compare emplyment
conditions and job stability in 2010 among formal employment using two
groups: those who had their first job in informality and those who had
their first job in formality. Transition matrices are built between
first employment, employment in 2010, and 2015 to corroborate the high
mobility found by previous literature; employment conditions and job
stability are then analyzed with multivariate models. The results
indicate that a significant proportion of those who started in
informality subsequently had access to formal jobs. However, access to
formal employment from informality occurs under conditions of
disadvantages concerning access and job stability, without these
subsequently disappearing. Then, the start of working life in
informality is associated with permanent disadvantages in the labor
market.
Filiaciones:
Lara Lara, Jaime:
Lara, JL (Corresponding Author), Univ Monterrey, Escuela Negocios, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico. Lara Lara, Jaime, Univ Monterrey, Escuela Negocios, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico. Rojas Huerta, Abigail Vanessa, Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Geog, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Rojas Huerta, Abigail Vanessa:
Lara, JL (Corresponding Author), Univ Monterrey, Escuela Negocios, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico. Lara Lara, Jaime, Univ Monterrey, Escuela Negocios, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico. Rojas Huerta, Abigail Vanessa, Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Geog, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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