Crisis, employment and inequality in Latin America: a national and regional analysis between Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador

The global economic crisis in 2008 impacts Latin America in a context in which a group of progressive governments 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:...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Quintana Romero, Luis, Salas, Carlos, Correa Quezada, Ronny
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/39169
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/39169
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Crisis
Wages
Polarization
Regional inequality
Salarios
Polarización
Desigualdad regional
Economía
Geografía
Sociología
Economics
Geography
Sociology
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Sumario:The global economic crisis in 2008 impacts Latin America in a context in which a group of progressive governments 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.