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Trabajo garantizado y política salarial para reducir la pobreza en México

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  • Sovilla, Bruno

    (Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)

  • Morales Sánchez, Elmar

    (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)

  • Gómez Méndez, Karina Guadalupe

    (Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas)

Abstract

Because the labor market in southwest Mexico is very different from that in the north, a given wage policy may affect the two markets quite differently. It is shown that the southwest’s high level of labor informality will not only prevent a minimum-wage increase from addressing that region’s high level of poverty effectively, but will actually worsen Mexico’s unequal territorial distribution of income. Therefore, we maintain that, under the current conditions of the country’s labor market, saying that the existing policy of increasing the minimum wage will reduce both poverty and inequality amounts to a contradictio in adiecto. Such a policy will continue to be self-contradictory until it considers implementing, as well, a job guarantee policy.

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  • Sovilla, Bruno & Morales Sánchez, Elmar & Gómez Méndez, Karina Guadalupe, 2021. "Trabajo garantizado y política salarial para reducir la pobreza en México," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 88(349), pages 5-37, enero-mar.
    • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:88:y:2021:i:349:p:5-37
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v88i349.1064
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    Keywords

    Minimum wage; job guarantee; territorial inequality.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies

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