Incomes and Productivity in North America. Papers from the 2000 Seminar

Papers from the 2000 seminar

The North American Seminar on Incomes and Productivity 2000, held this time in Mexico City, focused on one of the most important topics generated by the previous two seminars: the ambiguous relationship between productivity and incomes in the NAFTA member nations in recent years.

The 2000 Seminar brought together prominent academic economists and high-level labor and business representatives to exchange their ideas and experiences in an attempt to find answers to the following questions:

• Under which theoretical circumstances do incomes and productivity have a direct relationship, and in which cases does this relationship fail to arise?
• Is there still a long-term relationship between productivity growth and improved standards of living?
• What is the impact created by diverse remuneration systems on company productivity levels?
• How are productivity increases transformed into improved worker incomes?

The 2000 Seminar was held in the format of a round table-discussion panel. For the first time, a transcription of the complete panel discussions that took place after the presentation of each paper have been included in the book.

The Seminar was sponsored by the Commission for Labor Cooperation and organized by the Secretariat of the Commission in conjunction with the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Laval University in Canada, the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University, in the United States.

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