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<journal-id>0185-1667</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Investigación económica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Inv. Econ]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-1667</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Economía]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-16671999000300121</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Flexibilización laboral y empleo en México]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Labor Flexibility and Employment in Mexico]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Fujii G.]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gerardo]]></given-names>
</name>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Facultad de Economía División de Estudios de Posgrado]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>59</volume>
<numero>229</numero>
<fpage>121</fpage>
<lpage>160</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-16671999000300121&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-16671999000300121&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-16671999000300121&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Según el paradigma neoclásico, la causa del desempleo radica en la inflexibilidad del mercado laboral. Esta posición ha sido adoptada por los gobiernos de diversos países del mundo, entre los cuales se encuentran algunos de nuestro continente, y por instituciones financieras internacionales. El propósito de este trabajo es presentar una evaluación del nivel de rigidez que caracteriza actualmente al mercado laboral mexicano en cuatro planos: salarial, por despidos, por las formas de contratación y por la jornada de trabajo. Se concluye que, en general, el mercado de trabajo del país no se caracteriza por ser rígido, lo que es corroborado por la ausencia de correlación significativa entre variación de los salarios y de la ocupación. En síntesis, los antecedentes empíricos ponen en duda que la flexibilización del mercado laboral mexicano sea crucial para aumentar los niveles de empleo y del producto, lo que parecen depender más del crecimiento económico impulsado por la expansión de la demanda agregada.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract According to the neoclassical paradigm, unemployment is caused by inflexibility in the labor market. Governments of several countries in the world have endorsed this thesis, among with some belong to our continent, and by international financial institutions. The aim of this article is to examine the rigidity, which at present characterizes the Mexican labor market at four levels: wages, dismissals contractual forms and the working day by hour. The conclusion is reached that in general forms, the Mexican labor market cannot be characterized as being rigid. This is corroborated by the absence of a significant correlation between the variation of wages and employment. Briefly, the empirical data lead to doubt the affirmation that flexibility in the Mexican Labor Market is crucial to increasing the levels of employment and output which seem to depend more on economic growth pushed by aggregate demand.]]></p></abstract>
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