Stratification economics in the land of persistent inequalities

Bibliographic Data

ID2809895
AuthorsLuis Monroy‐gómez‐franco (0000-0002-3178-1423, Department of Economics University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts USA), Paloma Villagómez‐ornela, Paloma Villagómez‐Ornelas (Department of Sociology Universidad de Guadalajara Guadalajara Mexico)
Year2024
Volume83
Issue1
Pages157-175
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ajes.12527
OpenAlexW4384525188
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited55

Stratification economics has emerged as a field that puts historically and institutionally determined intergroup hierarchies at the forefront of distributive analysis. However, most of the existing theoretical and empirical literature has focused on studying the US stratification regime, limiting the potential application of this analytical framework to other geographies. This paper applies the theoretical framework of stratification economics to analyze the Mexican distributive regime. In the process, we show that expanding the regional focus of stratification economics requires incorporating several insights from other traditions of stratification analysis. Furthermore, we show that a stratification economics approach overcomes several pitfalls of more traditional approaches to analyzing the Mexican distributive regime, such as the human capital approach that anchored several public policy interventions deployed at the beginning of the XXIst century

Distributive property · Economics · Inequality · Limiting · Neoclassical economics · Positive economics · Public economics · Stratification (seeds) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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