The article analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis on the Mexican labor market, with a focus in the study of forms for participation the workers young in the labor market. Specifically, it examines how the crisis deepened, so differential, the greater vulnerability of labor and young workers, to encourage processes of precarious and unprotected work more intense. Furthermore, we find that the crisis had differential impacts at the regional level, being that states with greater integration into the American economy, as the north of the country were most affected by this crisis, in contrast to those that have a low level of integration with the processes of economic globalization in general and the U.S. economy in particular, as those of the southern region. Finally, we note that this crisis also affected, mainly, to the states that had modern labor markets, in other words, those in the prevailing high rates of wage-earning labor relations.
Mexico; regions; crisis; youth unemployment; informality; labor insecurity; employment vulnerability
