The Labor Market And The Dimensions Of Poverty In Mexico, 2008-2023
Roberto Gutierrez-Rodriguez
Department of Economics, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Campus Iztapalapa (UAM-I), Mexico City
Keywords: labor market, minimum wages, poverty, inequality, income distribution
Abstract
This paper aims to link the labor market conditions of Mexico with the evolution of poverty, resulting from a long-term process that worsened in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemics. On this basis, different figures related to the labor market, the level and distribution of income, multidimensional poverty and inequality reported by the institute advocated to national statistics, INEGI, in the surveys ENOE and ENIGH are discussed. In this regard, the main objective is to establish the degree of coherence between such figures and determine the appropriateness of CONEVAL's calculations on poverty, inequality, and distribution of income due to an adjustment in the 2022 ENIGH's methodology, which in turn implied a change in the figures corresponding to the period 2016-2022.