Open AccessTechnological change and the Mexican labor market: The role of tasks
Author(s) -
Liliana Meza González,
Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
estudios económicos de el colegio de méxico/estudios económicos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0188-6916
pISSN - 0186-7202
DOI - 10.24201/ee.v37i1.425
Subject(s) - formality , task (project management) , supply and demand , technological change , labour economics , economics , business , operations management , political science , microeconomics , management , macroeconomics , law
Using data from ENIGH 2000-2014, this paper aims, first, to describe what is happening in the Mexican labor market with regard to the relative demand and supply of workers defined by their occupation, when occupations are classified into non-routine and routine and, within these, into cognitive and manual, based on a thorough analysis of tasks. Second, this paper tries to understand how wages and formality are related to task-biased technological change (TBTC) in Mexico. The analysis differentiates the male and female labor markets.