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.'
affiliation: 'Sovilla, B (Corresponding Author), Univ Autonoma Chiapas, Fac Ciencias
  Sociales, Tapachula, Mexico.

  Sovilla, Bruno; Gomez Mendez, Karina Guadalupe, Univ Autonoma Chiapas, Fac Ciencias
  Sociales, Tapachula, Mexico.

  Sanchez, Elmar Morales, Univ Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, DF, Mexico.'
author: Sovilla, Bruno and Sanchez, Elmar Morales and Gomez Mendez, Karina Guadalupe
author-email: 'bruno.sovilla@unach.mx

  elmar.morales@hotmail.com

  mikar574@gmail.com'
author_list:
- family: Sovilla
  given: Bruno
- family: Sanchez
  given: Elmar Morales
- family: Gomez Mendez
  given: Karina Guadalupe
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.20430/ete.v88i349.1064
files: []
issn: 0041-3011
journal: TRIMESTRE ECONOMICO
keywords: Minimum wage; job guarantee; territorial inequality
keywords-plus: 'LAST RESORT; MINIMUM-WAGES; FULL-EMPLOYMENT; INFLATION; CONFLICT;

  PROGRAM; MONEY'
language: Spanish
month: JAN-MAR
number: '349'
number-of-cited-references: '58'
pages: 5-37
papis_id: 6887e5328c0ec38e0075683b5a1c379b
ref: Sovilla2021jobguarantee
times-cited: '0'
title: Job guarantee and wage policy to reduce poverty in Mexico
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000605334000001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '5'
volume: '88'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2021'