LatinNews Daily - 11 December 2019

* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the results of its 2019 economic census which reveal that wages in the country have been falling across all sectors over the last five years, even while the proportion of paid workers has been increasing. In 2019, 59.6% of workers were paid for their labour, up from 56.5% in 2014. And yet average wages have fallen between 2013 and 2018, by as much as 21.6% in ‘other activities’ (not included in the services, retail or manufacturing sectors). On average, wages in the manufacturing and services sector (which employ 18.8% and 48.7% of workers, respectively) fell by 0.6% each year between 2013 and 2018; wages in retail (which employs 23.1% of workers) fell by 0.2% annually during this period; and wages in ‘other activities’ (9.4% of the working population) fell by an annual 4.8%.  

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