Relación entre remesas y desigualdad

Una mirada al caso de México

Bibliographic Data

ID6166592
AuthorsAna Melisa Pardo Montaño, Ana Melisa Pardo-Montaño (0000-0001-5959-530X, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Claudio Alberto Dávila (0000-0002-7656-3606), Claudio Alberto Dávila Cervantes
Year2021
Issue89
Pages117-141
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Desarrollo y Sociedad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0120-3584 • E-ISSN: 1900-7760
PublisherUniversidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE)
DOI10.13043/dys.89.4
OpenAlexW4200288068
LanguageES
References cited33

Although the association of remittances with inequality in Mexico has been previously studied, there is no consensus on the subject and it is seldom analyzed at municipal level. The objective of this study was to analyze the association between remittance reception in Mexico and inequality at municipal scale in 2015. We conducted a quantitative, descriptive, and cross-sectional study with data from the 2015 INEGI Intercensus Survey. We estimated a quantile regression to examine the relationship between household remittance reception and income inequality in all municipalities. Remittance reception was found to be associated with income inequality at municipal level after controlling for several characteristics of the municipalities. This is likely to occur because those that migrate do not necessarily come from the most disadvantaged sectors of the population, which produces social differences within communities between those who are able to migrate and those who are not

Humanities · Political science · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Philosophy

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