Trabajo garantizado y política salarial para reducir la pobreza en México

Bruno Sovilla, Elmar Morales Sánchez and Karina Guadalupe Gómez Méndez
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Bruno Sovilla: Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Elmar Morales Sánchez: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Karina Guadalupe Gómez Méndez: Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas

El Trimestre Económico, 2021, vol. 88 (1), issue 349, 5-37

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.

Keywords: Minimum wage; job guarantee; territorial inequality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J01 J08 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.20430/ete.v88i349.1064

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