Place-specific determinants of income gaps

Autor: Ricardo Hausmann, Carlo Pietrobelli, Miguel Angel Santos
Přispěvatelé: Hausmann, R., Pietrobelli, C., Santos, M. A.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Personal Income
and Their Distributions
CAPABILITY THEORY
Development policy
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Development Planning and Policy: Other
Ethnic group
Wage
Justice
d31 - Personal Income
d31 - Personal Income
Wealth
and Their Distributions
Education and Inequality
Municipal level
d63 - Equity
Regional Development Planning and Policy
i24 - Education and Inequality
0502 economics and business
Economics
and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
o29 - Development Planning and Policy: Other
r58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
Mexico
media_common
Wealth
Marketing
Dynamic capabilities
Economic complexity
Dynamic capabilitie
05 social sciences
Equity
Census
Inequality
Economic complexity index
d63 - Equity
Justice
Inequality
and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
050211 marketing
Demographic economics
Wage gaps
050203 business & management
Zdroj: Journal of Business Research, 131, 782-792. Elsevier Science
ISSN: 0148-2963
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.01.003
Popis: The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap has shrunk while the wage gap has widened, and we find no evidence indicating that Chiapas indigenes are worse-off than their likes elsewhere in Mexico. We explore a different hypothesis and argue that place-specific characteristics condition the choices and behaviors of individuals living in Chiapas and explain persisting income gaps. Most importantly, they limit the necessary investments at the firm level in dynamic capabilities. Based on census data, we calculate the economic complexity index, a measure of the knowledge agglomeration embedded in the economic activities at the municipal level. Economic complexity explains a larger fraction of the wage gap than any individual factor. Our results suggest that the problem is Chiapas, and not Chiapanecos.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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