All publications: Mexico
Factsheet
Innovative care policies in Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico: Results of the RBSA intervention 2024–2026
Explore the key results of the ILO intervention to advance care policies that promote decent work, gender equality and social justice in Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico.
Research brief
The potential of import bans to address forced labour
This research brief examines the growing use of forced labour import bans as a policy tool to address labour rights abuses in the global economy. It provides an evidence-based overview of how such bans operate in practice, their potential impacts on...
Scope and implementation of international social security agreements: Analysis in the member countries of the RCM
This report presents an analysis of the scope and implementation of international social security agreements in the member countries of the Regional Conference on Migration (hereafter, RCM), including bilateral and multilateral agreements between...
Information sheet
The ILO and the social and solidarity economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
This document provides an overview of the ILO’s recent and ongoing work on the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Survey on workers on web-based digital platforms
This report summarises a survey of 1,153 digital platform workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyses their profile, working conditions and income, revealing precariousness, informality and lack of social protection. 52% use these...
The Migrant Worker Resource Centre in Tijuana, Mexico: Supporting access to justice and labour migration governance
It presents the context in which the Tijuana Migrant Worker Resource Centre was created, the services it offers, as well as the steps needed to continue its implementation and reach a greater number of beneficiaries in the Mexico-Central America...
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 28): Towards the creation of better jobs in the post-pandemic era
This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), emphasizes that three years...
Digitalization of Business Organizations
Mexico and CCIJ: An integral digital transformation
This case study, prepared by the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP), aims to assist Latin American Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) in their journey towards digitalisation, based on information and responses...
Research Paper No.16
Automation and its employment impacts: Case studies in Mexico’s apparel and footwear sectors
This paper is part of a research project on how processes of technological upgrading, particularly automation, interact with local social structures and institutional systems in the apparel and footwear industries to impact women’s and men’s...
Research Paper No.15
The automotive sector in Mexico: The impact of automation and digitalization on employment
This paper discusses the implementation of automation and digitalization processes in two automotive manufacturing plants in Mexico and analyses their effects on employment, including gender dimensions, and labour processes. A qualitative...
Participation and employment in seven developing economies: An age-period-cohort analysis
This paper aims at comparing various characteristics of labour force participation and employment, either formal or informal, for both men and women in several emerging or developing economies of different regions using pseudo panels and the...
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 27): Labour productivity in Latin America
This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared twice-yearly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), the...
Social Finance Brief: Pacífico Seguros
Pacífico Seguros is Peru’s largest insurer in terms of premiums collected and second largest in terms of people insured. In this Social Finance Brief, we explore "Protected Business", an insurance product designed by Pacífico to cover the main risks...
Social Finance Brief: Insurance for MSMEs in Mexico
The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility has been collaborating with the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions to build inclusive insurance markets for excluded persons and for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. This...
Labour Overview series for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021
2021 Labour Overview, Latin America and the Caribbean - Executive Summary
The 2021 Employment Outlook describes a mixed bag scenario for employment and suggests that pre-pandemic levels will be reached by 2023 or even 2024.
Productivity - Mexico
Productivity enhancement and sustainable employment in Mexico
This evidence-based study seeks to identify key constraints to productivity growth, enterprise development, and sustainable employment hubs in an emerging-market economy, Mexico, stocked in a middle-income trap, facing regional and sectoral...
Trade and decent work: Handbook of assessment methodologies
This Handbook presents and critically evaluates the methodologies used to assess the impact of trade on various areas of decent work. To that end, it traces the evolution of theories and methodological approaches ranging from the macro (country),...
Trade and decent work: Indicator guide
The purpose of the present Guide is to provide analytical tools, which can support further research on trade and decent work. It offers a broad set of labour market indicators for trade policy assessment that can be used in studies on the nexus...
ILO Working paper 37
Trade and Decent Work: Adequate Earnings in the Mexican Manufacturing Industries
This paper analyses the impact of non-preferential trade liberalization and exposure to globalization on “adequate earnings” in Mexico between 2003 and 2020, using data from the national labour force and manufacturing industries surveys. Trade...
ILO Working paper 36
Trade agreements and decent work in Mexico: the case of the automotive and textile industries
The study applies the framework of decent work indicators developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), in combination with input–output analysis, to explore selected links between international trade and certain indicators of decent...