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The existence of a large informal labor market — those citizens who do not pay taxes or make social security contributions, but receive social benefits — is a major issue for taxation and social protection policies. Why do some government policies seem to increase the cost to workers and...
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This is a review of the paper by Anton, Hernandez and Levy (2012), which is motivated by the analysis by Santiago Levy (2008) on the impact on the labor market of subsidized programs that deviate demand from funded social insurance programs. The paper deals with the evaluation of a fiscal reform...
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Spanish Abstract: El gobierno federal de México ha carecido de una política laboral integral por décadas, lo que imposibilita resolver problemas ingentes en el mercado de trabajo. La fuerza de trabajo tiene una alta proporción de adultos sin habilidades fundamentales para el trabajo, y el...
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Spanish abstract: Se emplean los conceptos de adecuación de los beneficios y sostenibilidad para conducir la discusión hacia una reforma pensionaria holística. Se presentan los elementos estratégi-cos requeridos, se revisan la reformas que fundamentan el sistema de pensiones vigente, y se...
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The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract= 2358669. El gobierno de México definió entre los años noventa y los dos mil principios de reforma a los seguros de salud e intentó implementarlos. Las principales iniciativas aprobadas definieron esquemas...
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Between the 1990s and the two thousands, the government of Mexico defined principles of reform to health insurance and has sought to implement them. Major approved initiatives defined voluntary schemes, in one case private insurance (which has very low penetration), and in another a new public...
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This paper provides a set of measurements of the actual benefits and costs of the general old age retirement plan provided to individuals by the Mexican pension system (MPS), which is necessary to evaluate the decisions by workers to contribute to social security (i.e. work in the formal sector)...
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Las reformas a la Ley Federal del Trabajo (LFT) de México se han propuesto por varios años. Esta nota define que el principal objetivo de una reforma debe ser mejorar el marco para la celebración de contratos de manera que se optimice la generación de capital humano y se disminuya el costo...
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This document aims to provide a set of recommendations for the adoption of an unemployment insurance program in Mexico. It describes the situation of unemployment in Mexico, of the labor contracts, of the main federal employment programs and of the effectiveness of the employment protection...
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Spanish Abstract: Se estudia el posible efecto causal del estado de salud hacia los ingresos laborales. En un modelo económico las personas deciden moverse hacia estados de mejora en salud o de no mejora. La decisión afecta los ingresos laborales. Se exploran modelos que plantean otras...
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