IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/elt/journl/v78y2011i310p343-375.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Análisis por cohortes de la participación laboral en México (1987-2009)

Author

Listed:
  • Duval Hernández, Robert

    (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)

  • Orraca Romano, Pedro

    (Universidad Carlos III)

Abstract

This paper decomposes labor force participation, the unemployment rate, and the employment shares of self-employment, and of the formal and informal salaried sectors into age, cohort, and time effects. The life cycle patterns of labor force participation and formal employment follow a standard inverted U-shape. Younger workers are more likely to participate in the informal salaried sector, while self-employment increases monotonically with age. However, significant informal salaried employment is also observed among older unskilled workers and women. Strong countercyclical variations are observed for the informal salaried sector, while the opposite occurs for the formal sector. Self-employment fluctuations are countercyclical with a lag. We find an “added worker” effect only during severe recessions among unskilled women. Long-run generational effects show a steadily rising participation in the informal sector with a corresponding decline in formality among newer generations of salaried workers. Some preliminary explanations for this fact are discussed.// Este artículo descompone la participación en la fuerza laboral, la tasa de desempleo y la composición sectorial del empleo (autoempleo, empleo asalariado en el sector informal y empleo asalariado en el sector formal) en efectos de edad, cohorte y tiempo. La participación en la fuerza laboral y el empleo formal siguen un perfil de U invertida a lo largo del ciclo de vida. Los trabajadores más jóvenes son más proclives a participar en el sector informal asalariado, mientras que el autoempleo crece monotónicamente con la edad. Sin embargo, también se observa una partici¬pación significativa de personas poco calificadas de edad avanzada y mujeres en el sector del trabajo informal asalariado. Se observan importantes fluctuaciones con¬tracíclicas del empleo asalariado informal, mientras que ocurre lo opuesto con el empleo formal. Las fluctuaciones del autoempleo son contracíclicas con un rezago. Encontramos un efecto de “trabajador añadido” entre las mujeres poco calificadas sólo durante receciones severas. Los efectos generacionales de largo plazo muestran un incremento paulatino en la participación laboral en el sector informal asalariado, con un correspondiente declive en el sector formal entre las generaciones más jóve¬nes. Se analiza algunas explicaciones preliminares de este fenómeno.

Suggested Citation

  • Duval Hernández, Robert & Orraca Romano, Pedro, 2011. "Análisis por cohortes de la participación laboral en México (1987-2009)," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(310), pages 343-375, abril-jun.
  • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:78:y:2011:i:310:p:343-375
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v78i310.37
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.eltrimestreeconomico.com.mx/index.php/te/article/view/37/39
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v78i310.37?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel & Martín-Román, Ángel L., 2023. "The asymmetric cyclical behaviour of female labour force participation in Latin America," MPRA Paper 117408, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    composición de la fuerza laboral; sector informal; América Latina;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:78:y:2011:i:310:p:343-375. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Nuria Pliego Vinageras (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.