Abstract
Since the late 1980s, Mexico has launched an extensive process of economic liberalization that culminated with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. Since then, Mexico’s economy has been issuing in a constant flow of international trade. During this process, the internal structure of the economy has altered patterns in terms of the composition, size, and geographic location of economic activities. Consequently, employment and wages are among the economic factors that have been affected. These in turn have direct but different influences on regional socioeconomic development. These coinciding events of liberalization, changing wages for Mexican workers, and internal and external migration have had critical consequences for Mexico’s economy and development. We are interested in the changes in wages and internal and external Mexican migration for the past two decades.
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The industries were classified in nine productive one-digit classification sectors. The sectors included are: Agriculture; Mining; Manufacturing; Construction; Trade; Tourism; Transport, Financial Services; and Government.
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National Survey of Urban Employment.
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National Survey of Occupation and Employment.
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In Table 9.2 the North Central and Traditional Migration regions were grouped into a single one, referred to as Central, given that these two neighboring regions are located in central Mexico and show low variability in employment composition.
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Flores, M., Zey, M., Caamal, C., Hoque, N. (2012). NAFTA, Industrial Concentration, Employment Volatility, Wages, and Internal and International Mexican Migration: 1990–2009. In: Hoque, N., Swanson, D. (eds) Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century. Applied Demography Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2297-2_9
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