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The share of workers employed by medium-size Mexican companies – a potential engine of job growth – dropped from 41% in 1999 to 38% in 2009.
Despite recent labor-market reforms, limitations on layoffs and temporary workers continue to encourage even large companies to hire full-time workers through third-party agencies (and thereby avoid burdensome restrictions).
Workers bargain for money wages, and a reduction in their money incomes might leave total demand too low to employ all those willing to work.
This reinforces the idea that “stimulus” cannot do any good, since workers have as much employment as they want.
In labor markets, this meant unemployed workers facing prolonged job searches.
But the response by others in the field was that what their colleagues described as “unemployment” did not truly exist; it was voluntary, the result of stubborn workers refusing to accept the going wage.
Among those who recognized the reality of involuntary unemployment were John Maynard Keynes and Arthur Lewis, who incorporated it into his model of dual economies, in which urban wages do not respond to labor-supply gluts and remain above what rural workers earn.
Threatening workers with the loss of their job will have no effect if they can immediately find another.
The way to create incentives not to shirk is to pay workers above the market wage, making the loss of a job more costly.
According to a 2015 study by the World Economic Forum, “while more women than men are enrolling at university in 97 countries, women make up the majority of skilled workers in only 68 countries and the majority of leaders in only four.”
Worldwide, companies are already struggling to find enough qualified workers for their increasingly automated work processes.
The International Commission for Financing Global Education Opportunity reported last year that nearly 40% of employers are having difficulties recruiting workers with the right skills.
Businesses investing in lower-income countries also need their workers to be healthy.
If a company adopts productivity-enhancing technology that eliminates jobs, will it do anything to help its displaced workers remain equipped to participate in the labor force?
Moreover, this environment has created fertile conditions for the spread of wild theories including that the government and aid workers are conspiring to infect citizens.
Such doubts and fears are leading families to hide their dead and conduct funerals at night, with some communities going so far as to attack health workers.
This means that those hotel or restaurant workers who can retain dollar earnings have incomes that are 25 times higher than those who cannot.
Instead of boosting infrastructure investment, governments have pursued austerity policies that are particularly harmful to low-skill workers.
Self-standing electrical motors allowed machines, the workers operating them, and their activities all to be reorganized in more efficient ways.
TaskRabbit, which subcontracts household jobs like assembling Ikea furniture, requires participants to pay a minimum wage, and has launched an insurance scheme to protect its US workers.
On the other hand, technology platforms that use “algorithmic scheduling” to align workers’ shifts and hours with business cycles automatically, continue to disrupt family life and cause unnecessary stress.
Governments will need new accounting and reporting standards to calculate wages, forecast incomes, and categorize workers within the growing ranks of the self-employed.
With nearly half of all services jobs in the OECD at risk of automation, the sharing economy can smooth the disruption caused to displaced workers as they upgrade their skills.
Indeed, sharing-economy data can help governments identify those workers at greatest risk and support their retraining.
The bulk of Mexican workers remain employed in “informal” firms – especially firms in which employees are not on salaried contracts – where productivity is a fraction of the level in large, modern firms that are integrated into the world economy.
Firms and workers in the formal sector must pay for health insurance, pensions, and other employee benefits.
But, because workers undervalue these benefits, the result is pure tax on formal employment.
By contrast, when firms and workers are informal, workers receive a similar bundle of health and pension benefits for free.
In fact, returns to education have been falling partly because the supply of skilled workers has outpaced demand, as most informal firms do not require them.
The second lesson is that countries need to pay close attention to how social insurance policies affect the behavior of firms and workers.
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