Choices or Constraints? Informality, Labour Market and poverty in Mexico

摘要

The economic and social transformations that have taken place in Mexico during the last three decades have influenced the uuay labour markets operate and have had an important impact in the number of poor households, their livelihoods and their capacities to use their labour force as a means to obtain incomes for their increasingly constrained economies, UUe discuss the Voluntary' entrance of ujorkers in the informal labour market, drauuing on the uuork of Maloney (2004) and others, and critique thisvietu on the basis of crucial economic and social trends that have shaped Mexican society today. UUe drauu from ourouun long-term fielduuork and from recent analyses on social mobility and occupational mobility in order to shouu that there are more 'constraints' than 'choices' for ujorkers uuithin the more rigid labour and economic structure that prevails today.