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Incomes and Productivity in North America

Papers from the 2000 Seminar

Contents

Foreword
Alfonso Oñate

Opening Remarks: Globalization and Objective Research
Gonzalo Hernández

The Importance of the Programs Linked to Mexico's Labor Market
Javier Castillo Ayala

SESSION I: MACROECONOMIC ISSUES IN INCOMES AND PRODUCTIVITY

Introduction
Leonard Bierman

Exporting Inequality? Recent Changes in Industrial Wage Inequality in Canada, Mexico and the United States
James K. Galbraith and Vidal Garza-Cantú

Poverty Impacts of Trade, Macro-Economic and Social Policy - Canada and the United States in the 1990's
Lars Osberg and Teresa L. Cyrus

What Has Changed in the Performance of Employment and Wages in Mexico after NAFTA?
Rogelio Ramírez De la O

SESSION II:MICROECONOMIC ISSUES IN INCOMES AND PRODUCTIVITY

Introduction
Anthony Giles

Shared Compensation Systems and Decision-Making in the US Job Market
Arindrajit Dube and Richard B. Freeman

The Growth of Real Salaries and Productivity in Mexico: A Microeconomic Approach
Enrique Hernández-Laos

Rethinking High Performance Work Systems
Pradeep Kumar

Appendix A: Speakers and Panelists

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