Crisis, Employment and Inequality in Latin America: A National and Regional Analysis between Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador

Luis Quintana Romero, Carlos Salas () and Ronny Correa-Quezada
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Carlos Salas: Instituto of Economia, Universidad de Campinas UNICAMP, Brazil.

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2019, issue 43, 129-147

Abstract: The global economic crisis in 2008 impacts Latin America in a context in which a group of progressive gov¬ernments had succeeded in managing the destiny of their countries. This paper analyses, at subnational level, the experiences of three countries, in the areas of employment and income inequality: Brazil and Ecuador, in which economic policies were reoriented towards a strong social approach, and which are compared with Mexico, a nation in which the Neo-liberal model was reinforced. The results enable to highlight that while inequality in wage income has been reduced in all those countries as a whole, that has not been the case for specific regions of those nations.

Keywords: Crisis; Wages; Polarization; Regional Inequality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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