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This paper used a new source of information (ESRU-EMOVI NL) to estimate, for the first time, the lower limit of unequal opportunities in a federal state in Mexico. Using the former criterion concerning unequal opportunities, a lower threshold indicated 35% inequality in economic resources in the state. As at the national level, the main contributors to unequal opportunities in the state are unequal economic resources by origin and parental education. However, in contrast to what has been observed, for the country as a whole, inequalities associated with people's skin tone account for 5% of observed unequal opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses, from the prism of International Economic Law (IEL), on the issue of remittances and international migration, with an approach based on human rights and economic inequality in this hemisphere. It is particularly limited to the case study of Mexico and its dynamics of individual and collective remittances, sent by the Mexican migrant population residing in the United States to their families and communities in Mexico. The analysis of the issue of remittances is also carried out with a look at economic globalization and with a trans-territorial approach of the Mexican nation-state, which is integrated in addition to its population settled in its territorial space, by the Mexican population residing in the States. The present study is from the IEL perspective, the epistemic synergy becomes relevant in a context of international migration with a human rights view, in order to analyze the remittances linked to the phenomenon of economic inequality and its potential effects for Mexico and the United States in the present decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: the labor inequality experienced by women and men is evident in income. The objective of this work was to analyze the economic income of women and men in economic activities in Mexico, during the last 15 years, based on the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, in order to detect wage gaps by gender. Method: to carry out the analysis, the 20 activity sectors contemplated in the North American Industrial Classification System were considered. Information was extracted from the National Survey of Occupation and Employment about the sex, hourly income, years of schooling and age of the individuals. The basic decomposition equation Oaxaca-Blinder was applied after conducting econometric analysis through multiple linear regressions through Mincer's wage equation. Results: the results of the analysis show a wage gap in the economic activities of, on the one hand a) construction, and b) transportation, commerce, and storage, favorable to women in each of the years of the analysis. On the other hand, in the activities of c) corporate, and d) other services, except activities government, it is appreciated a wage gap favorable to men in all years of the study. Discussion or Conclusion: the economic income has allowed showing the salary difference between men and women in the different economic activities of Mexico, favorable in some activities to women although in the majority it is favorable to men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Who is the most affected by corruption, the rich citizen or the poor? Who is more likely to validate corrupt activities, the rich or the poor? A fundamental question that the members of a society face is whether they would like to live in a corrupt system. In other words, if people had an option between choosing a corrupt State over an honest State, which one they should go for? We claim that in a society characterized by inhabitants with varying levels of income, the answer to the question may differ between the rich and the poor. We show that with significant costs of corruption, the poorer section of the society tends to suffer more than the richer one concerning the honest system where public officials are honest. By applying the robust least squares technique, for Mexico over the 1996-2016 period, it is shown that: 1) in Mexico the rich support/like/want/contribute more to a corrupt system; 2) the poor are very affected by a corrupt system; 3) the government and its policies have no effect on the income of the rich, while for the poor, if the government's policies are of better or higher quality, then the less poor they will be, and 4) economic inequality, measured by the Gini index, affects the poor more than the rich. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]