Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-OREGGIA, Eduardo; LIMA-VELAZQUEZ, José Martín  and  MULATO-MARTINEZ, David. Product market competence and labor informality in the mexican manufacturing sector 1987-2004. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.43, pp.721-750. ISSN 2448-6183.

This paper relates informality, measured with access to social security benefits, in the mexican labor markets with product competence. Using microdata from labor surveys and industrial data, we performed a two-stage strategy, in which the first stage separates the industry informality differentials for workers, and in a second stage we pooled the data and estimated the effect from market competition on the labor market. Results show that competence can increase informality in the labor market.

Keywords : product market competition; informality; manufacturing; panel data; labor market.