OECD Forum on the Restated Jobs Strategy MEXICO

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OECD Forum on the Restated Jobs Strategy
MEXICO
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• Mexico is following a comprehensive
• approach that strives to include the four
• pillars of the OECD restated strategy
• an appropriate macroeconomic policy
• the promotion of labor market participation
• support for job creation
• the development of labor skills

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• MACROECONOMIC TRENDS

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GROWTH
690 billion dollars
Base year 1995

• Expected growth rate 4
• Sources INEGI, IMF, and Banxico

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GROWTH
Job Creation (Thousand jobs, Aug-Dec of each year)
Workers Insured at IMSS (Million workers, sa)
Source IMSS.
Source IMSS.
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ECONOMIC STABILITY
Inflation, average anualized monthly rate
Source Banco de México
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COMPETITIVENESS

• The Federal Government works to reduce
  inefficiencies and to simplify norms and
  procedures. It also promotes an agenda of
  economic reforms.
• Mexico, Canada and the United States strengthen
  the competitiveness of companies established in
  North America.
• Alliance for the Security and Prosperity in North
  America (ASPAN), launched in March of 2005.

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• CURRENT PROGRAMS
• MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL WELFARE NATIONAL
  EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

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JOB-SEARCH SUPPORT

• Job Centers
• In place since the 1970s
• Employment fairs
• Reducing transaction costs

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DEVELOPING NEWLINKING MECHANISMS

• Chambatel
• Toll-free phone consultation in under 7 minutes
• Chambanet
• Web page providing support to employers and job
  seekers
• Mi Chamba newspaper
• Distributed throughout the country every two
  weeks
• Centers for Labor Intermediation
• Providing business infrastructure to job-seekers

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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT

• Workshops for job seekers
• Helping overcome personal obstacles
• Becate Scholarship Program
• For young people with no professional experience,
  and for those who require improved or updated
  training

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DIVERSIFYING THE ACTIVE LABOR MARKET

• Formal Employment
• Economic support for job seekers with previous
  experience in the formal job market
• Project for Productive Investment
• Financing investment project with long-term,
  regional, comprehensive approach
• Agricultural Workers
• Aimed at the 1.2 million people who seek seasonal
  agricultural sector employment
• Repatriated at Work
• Helping Mexican migrants who return to Mexico
• Opening Spaces
• Facilitating the employment of the elderly and
  people with disabilities

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BILATERAL PROGRAM

• Mexico-Canada Temporary Agricultural Workers
  Program
• In place since 1974
• In 2005, 11,720 individuals participated in this
  program. In the first six months of 2006, 9,913
  more were employed.
• Controlled and pre-established timetable for
  movement between the countries

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EMBASSY OF MEXICO TO JAPAN

• 2-15-1 Nagata-cho
• Chiyoda-ku
• Tokyo 100-0014
• (81-3) 3581-1131
• www.sre.gob.mx/japon