Abstract

DUSSEL PETERS, Enrique. Features of employment generators activities in the mexican economy, 1988-2000. Inv. Econ [online]. 2003, vol.63, n.243, pp.123-154. ISSN 0185-1667.

The aim of the present study is to analyse the actual employment conditions in Mexico and to relate them to their quality (real salary), productivity and foreign trade, by questioning which have been the specialisation patterns of foreign trade and the productivity of the Mexican economy as well as the manufacturing industry and its branches following its generation of employment? This analysis will take place at both an aggregate level for the economy as a whole and the manufacturing industry, as well as at the disintegrated level of the Great Divisions and the branches of the Mexican economy in order to determine the tendencies in the Mexican economy in relation to the previously mentioned points.

Based on the aforementioned points, a bibliographic revision on this topic will be provided as well as an analysis of the developmental strategy that was followed since 1988. The main tendencies of employment will be presented at both an aggregate level as well as at the level of branches. Amongst the results the following stands out: the fragility of the activities that created employment during the 1988 - 2000 period, which was characterised by a dynamics in real salaries that was inferior to the rest of the economy and a negative productivity.