Mexico in the 1990s: the Main Cross-Sectional Facts

Chiara Binelli and Orazio Attanasio

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, vol. 13, issue 1, 238-264

Abstract: This paper describes the main cross-sectional facts on individual and household earnings, labor supply, income, consumption and wealth in Mexico in the decade of the 1990s. We use two different data sources: the Mexican Employment Survey (ENEU) and the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH). The contribution of the paper is twofold. First, we integrate the two surveys to provide a complete characterization of the changes in employment, wages, income, consumption and wealth in the 1990s. Second, we highlight some distinctive features that characterize the Mexican economy in this decade. In particular, we focus on the changes in the size of the informal sector and we study the relationship between changes in informality and in wage inequality. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Mexico; Inequality; Informality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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