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Still Looking for The Land of Opportunity: Regional Differences in Social Mobility in Mexico

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  • Roberto Vélez Grajales

    (Espinosa Yglesias Research Centre (ceey))

  • Omar Stabridis Arana

    (Cátedra Conacyt en CIESAS Occidente)

  • Enrique E. Minor Campa

    (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa (uam-Iztapalapa))

Abstract

The present study documents the heterogeneity of intergenerational mobility among Mexico's 32 federative entities. Given the lack of information pertaining to regional disaggregation, two data sources that together cover the required information and representativeness were matched: the esru Survey of Social Mobility in Mexico 2011 (emovi-2011) and the National Nutrition and Health Survey 2012 (ensanut-2012). Mobility is measured with reference to a wealth index that is calculated using the Multiple Correspondence Analysis (mca) method. The observed heterogeneity was found to be consistent with recent studies of the USA by Chetty et al. (2015). Such heterogeneity points to the existence of differences in opportunity among people in Mexico, not only at an urban-rural level, but also at the regional one. This result indicates the need for future surveys to collect primary information, in order to ensure the possibility of regionally disaggregating social mobility measures.

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  • Roberto Vélez Grajales & Omar Stabridis Arana & Enrique E. Minor Campa, 2018. "Still Looking for The Land of Opportunity: Regional Differences in Social Mobility in Mexico," Sobre México. Revista de Economía, Sobre México. Temas en economía, vol. 4(1), pages 54-69.
    • Handle: RePEc:smx:journl:04:1:54
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    1. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, Luis, 2023. "The importance of positional mobility for regional comparisons," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(3), pages 322-333.

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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • R10 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General

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