The Role of Covid-19 in Molding the Economy and Social Inequity of Mexican Households

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ID13026980
AuthorsTonatiuh Suárez-Meaney (0000-0003-2534-7126, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Ioannis Chatziioannou (0000-0002-2434-1964, National Technical University of Athens, corresponding author), Héctor Daniel Reséndiz López (0000-0003-3748-0274, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Luis Chias Becerril (0000-0003-0686-0936, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Efthimios Bakogiannis (0000-0001-6726-4762, National Technical University of Athens)
Year2023
Volume12
Issue10
Pages558-558
Publication date2023-10-06
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci12100558
OpenAlexW4387470750
LanguageEN
References cited28

The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply influenced the economy of all nations, and Mexico is no exception. This effect is distinct for different groups of the population, with variable socio-economic and demographic characteristics, that live in regions of contrasting features. An efficient apparatus for measuring expenditure variations and tendency is the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey performed by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography in accordance with the international standardization established at the Canberra Conference; the latter permits, every two years, for different surveys to be comparable in time and space. Hence, in Mexico, there are three surveys for 2018, 2020, and 2022. The results of the comparison indicate that different groups of the Mexican population have experienced the pandemic with multiple impacts, apparently without large proportional variation regarding expenditure but with greater variation in time-use conditions. Moreover, it became apparent that even though the lower strata of Mexico’s population have fewer proportional variations concerning income after the COVID-19 outburst, they must incorporate more family members into working activities to achieve a survival line; the latter results in the abandonment of school from various young household members that will negatively impact the quality of their lives in the long term

Abandonment (legal · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Pandemic · Political science · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 impact on air quality · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Demography

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