Labour flexibility as determining cause of hiring and employment conditions in Mexico since 2007 to 2012

Abstract

From the heterodox economic theory, it seeks to describe the actual condition of the mexican labor market from 2007 to 2012 (flexible or rigid) and the characteristics of the workforce that accesses it through a methodology that is necessary analyze variables such as written contracts, union life and rigidity of wages on the rise for the market study, while in the labor force will consider the years spent at any school, work experience and hours worked per week, differentiating in two groups, one under nine years of schooling and another above that figure (8.6 years is the average education in Mexico according to the Census of Population and Housing, 2010). Both groups will be studied by the method of Ordinary Least Squares, which will lead us to draw conclusions about the differences between one group and another and the role of the condition of the labor market in them.