Why the United States Is the Biggest Creator of Jobs

Published in La Prensa
(Honduras ) on 25 January 2011
by Luis Pazos (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Aja Trinidad. Edited by Gillian Palmer.
During the last century, the United States was the one country that provided the most jobs (legal and illegal) to workers from around the world. The majority of migrants see in the United States the most viable option for finding work or starting a business. Currently, according to data from the Census Bureau, more than 46 million immigrants of Hispanic origin live in the United States; 30 million of those are of Mexican origin.

In the constitutions of Latin American countries, there are extensive articles or chapters to protect workers, whereas the U.S. Constitution doesn't even dedicate a single letter to workers’ protection. Flexible work environments increase workers’ demands and raise wages in the United States, well above the wages of Latin American countries — to such an extent, in fact, that many Latin Americans earn in one hour in the American union what they'd receive in one day or week working in their own countries.

In one of the most important indicators of the World Bank, the rigidity of employment index, the United States appears as the country with the most labor flexibility of the world. There, there exists an increased ability to hire, fire, and pay per hour or per particular job. There's no law in the Constitution or in the Federal Legislation that requires employers to liquidate, nor do the labor costs of business grow each year.

As labor flexibility is the main cause of job creation in the United States, in Mexico, the main reason sufficient jobs haven't been created for all Mexicans, causing millions to have to migrate legally or illegally to the United States, is due to the rigidity of the labor legislation that, unrelated to worker productivity, raises the costs of labor over time. Hopefully, our legislators will realize that we don't need more laws to protect the workers, but more jobs — jobs that will only be created if we adjust our costly, obsolete and anti-competitive labor law.


Durante el siglo pasado, Estados Unidos fue el país que dio más empleos legales e ilegales a trabajadores de todo el mundo. La mayoría de migrantes ven en Estados Unidos la opción más viable para encontrar un empleo o empezar una empresa. Actualmente, según datos de la Oficina de Censos, viven en ese país más de 46 millones de inmigrantes de raíces hispanas, de los cuales 30 millones son de origen mexicano.
En los países latinoamericanos existen extensos artículos o capítulos en sus constituciones para proteger a los trabajadores, mientras que la Constitución de EUA no dedica una sola letra a su protección. Un entorno laboral flexible incrementa la demanda de trabajadores y eleva los salarios en Estados Unidos, muy por arriba de los países de Iberoamérica, a tal grado que muchos latinos ganan en una hora en la Unión Americana lo que en sus países reciben en un día o una semana.
En uno de los indicadores más importantes del Banco Mundial, el índice de rigidez laboral, aparece Estados Unidos como el país con mayor flexibilidad laboral del mundo. Ahí existe la mayor facilidad para contratar, despedir y pagar por hora o trabajo determinado. No hay ninguna ley en la Constitución o en la Legislación Federal que obligue a los empleadores a liquidaciones ni crecen cada año por ley los costos laborales de las empresas.
En tanto en EUA esa flexibilidad laboral es la principal causa de la creación de empleos, en México, la principal razón por la que no se han creado empleos suficientes para todos los mexicanos y millones tienen que migrar legal o ilegalmente a Estados Unidos es la rigidez de la legislación laboral que, ajena a la productividad del trabajador, aumenta los costos de la mano de obra sólo por el paso del tiempo.
Ojalá nuestros legisladores se den cuenta de que no necesitamos más leyes para proteger a los trabajadores, sino más empleos, que sólo se podrán crear si flexibilizamos nuestra costosa, obsoleta y anticompetitiva ley laboral.
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