Residents from Tijuana aren't running out of work, but they're definitely working for less. The National Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI) revealed that the unemployment rate has declined in recent years, but that's come with lower wages and longer hours, practically the same story seen in the U.S. and around the world.

"Although there is employment growth, there is a lower financial payout or there is a tendency of stagnation of wages at very serious levels," economist Jose Luis Contreras Valenzuela told to the newspaper Frontera.

The National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE) shows a comparison of 2015 and 2016. Before more, more than 26,000 residents lived on a minimum wage, but by the end of 2016 the number increased to more than 34,000 people.

While in the same period there was an increase of people working more than 48 hours a week. That translates to an overtime that exceeds the normal 8 hour work day.

With the maquiladora (manufacturing) industry as the main source of employment in Tijuana, the Association of Human Resources of Industry in Tijuana (ARHITAC) secured a six percent wage increase this year as a measure to address the employment deficit.

Via Frontera

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