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Trade liberalization and the self-employed in Mexico
In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the selfemployed workers in Mexico over the last two decades (1984–2002). This is the period over which Mexico opened its economy to the global market through trade and investment liberalization. For the first decade following the liberalization, inequality and poverty among the self-employed increased; as the economy stabilized and the country saw economic growth inequality started to go down, but poverty kept increasing. To understand the changes in inequality and poverty I decompose the inequality and poverty indices into within and between group components. Rising returns to skilled labour, regional differences in impact of liberalization and sectoral shifts in employment are important factors in explaining the trends in both inequality and poverty.
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Englisch
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Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2008/05
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Empirical Studies of Trade
poverty
Shapley–Shorrocks decomposition
selfemployed
Mexico
Einkommensverteilung
Armut
Selbstständige
Mexiko
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Popli, Gurleen K.
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Entstanden
- 2008
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