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Valuing and devaluing: Struggles over social payments, dignity, and sneakers
Economic Anthropology, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 233-245, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article examines the valuation struggles around Argentina's Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social (AUH), a large conditional cash transfer (CCT) program introduced in 2009. Thinking about value as a verb invites us to move away from reified notions and to consider the work differently positioned social actors do to value ...
Lindsay DuBois
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International Journal of Training and Development, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 629-645, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Cooperations or transfers of the German technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system have taken place in different cultural contexts in recent decades. In Mexico, the so‐called Modelo Méxicano de Formación Dual has been adapted to Mexico's cultural conditions. Yet, it still seems to be largely unknown in society, the education
Claudia Hunink, Lydia Raesfeld
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FDI and the growing wage gap in Mexican municipalities
Papers in Regional Science, Volume 101, Issue 6, Page 1411-1439, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) has generally been linked to higher wages, but evidence remains sparse on the overall effects of FDI on average wages, the wage gap between skilled and unskilled labour, and inter‐industry heterogeneity. We address these issues for Mexican municipalities and industries for a period of increasing FDI and ...
J. Eduardo Ibarra‐Olivo +1 more
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Inequality, income dynamics, and worker transitions: The case of Mexico
Quantitative Economics, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 1669-1705, November 2022., 2022 We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in Mexico using social security records for the period 2005–2019. The analysis is based on a nonparametric approach and is focused primarily on the properties of the distribution of earnings changes.
Daniela Puggioni +5 more
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Papers in Regional Science, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 795-809, August 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper proposes a new multiplier metric to understand the value contribution of industries. We build on the conventional input output employment and income multiplier methods familiar to policy makers and academic research communities to propose a ‘wage premium’ multiplier that facilitates focus on the quality of employment embedded in ...
Oluwafisayo Alabi +3 more
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Providing long‐term care: Options for a better workforce
International Social Security Review, Volume 75, Issue 3-4, Page 121-144, July-December 2022., 2022 Abstract Older people and their care workers have been disproportionately affected by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Many OECD Member countries have taken measures to contain the spread of the infection and improve the care workforce. Yet the health crisis is highlighting and exacerbating pre‐existing structural problems in the long‐term care (LTC) sector.
Ana Llena‐Nozal +2 more
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Papers in Regional Science, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 373-397, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The effects of a rural roads programme depend on labour mobility, how the programme is financed, and agglomeration economies. If financed by a rural poll tax and cross‐price effects and agglomeration economies are sufficiently small, the wage will rise, with some return migration.
Clive Bell
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Modelling old‐age retirement: An adaptive multi‐outcome LAD‐lasso regression approach
International Social Security Review, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 3-29, January/March 2022., 2022 Abstract Using unique administrative register data, we investigate old‐age retirement under the statutory pension scheme in Finland. The analysis is based on multi‐outcome modelling of pensions and working lives together with a range of explanatory variables.
Tero Lähderanta +3 more
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El derecho constitucional a la igualdad retributiva
Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Social, 2019 Este trabajo tiene por objeto analizar el contenido y alcances del derecho a la igualdad retributiva reconocido por la Constitución, así como el procedimiento racional que ha de seguirse para poder determinar cuándo se vulnera este derecho.
José María Soberanes Díez
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Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico†
The Economic History Review, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 584-610, August 2021., 2021 Abstract Historical wage and income data provide both normative measures of living standards, and indicators of patterns of economic development. This study shows that, given limited historical data, median incomes are most appropriate for measuring welfare and inequality, while urban unskilled wages can be used to test dualist models of development ...
Ingrid Bleynat +2 more
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