Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

According to its coordinator, the purpose of this book is to fill some gaps in knowledge that persist in the relationship between housing and households, and to move away from analyzing it from a structural perspective, proposing alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to deepen our understanding of the production, reproduction, and use of housing as a resource for households in their daily lives and for the generational preservation of their members.

The purpose of this report is to offer an overview of the perspectives of demography specialists who graduated from El Colegio de México regarding their experiences during their training as students, the usefulness of their studies in their professional development, and their reflections on emerging issues in the field of demography.

The manuscript presents a review of the essay Nihilistic Times. Thinking with Max Weber (2023) by political philosopher and feminist Wendy Brown, which is a contemporary revision of the texts “Science as Vocation” and “Politics as Vocation” by German sociologist Max Weber. The review highlights: a) the potential for critical re-readings of intellectual traditions, in particular the one Brown proposes on Weber; b) the possibility of counter-hegemonic readings of the canon, in terms of reading Weber from the interpretative framework of nihilism, according to the author; and, c) the program of critical pedagogy with and against Weber that emerges from the book.

This paper develops a discrete choice model to analyze the labor and childcare decisions of Mexican women with children under five years of age. A mixed logit model is used to simulate the potential effects of public policies on these decisions. Data from the National Survey on Time Use shows that disposable income, leisure, and the number of childcare options can explain women's labor and care decisions. In addition, it shows that the presence of children under two years old in the home decreases a woman's probability of entering the labor market. Alternatively, the presence of children between three and five years old or grandparents who are able to provide care increases it. Policy simulations suggest that the most effective policy to increase women's participation in the labor market is a reduction of the marginal rate of the personal income tax for women working in the formal sector who have children under five years old, compared to other options such as tax credits and conditional cash transfers for women in the formal sector. The simulated policies have limitations since the poorest women are employed in the informal sector.

Corruption is a social phenomenon that has a profound effect in the Latin American region, for this reason, it is proposed to find the causes that contribute to its development. The Bayesian Model Averaging with Instrumental Variables (IVBMA) methodology is used to find robust determinants of corruption in 19 Latin American countries. 23 regressors are considered with observations from 2013 to 2020. The IVBMA carries out 8,388,608 models, in order to extract the most robust determinants. It is revealed that institutional and economic elements are better predictors of corruption in the region.

Why did Mexico's growth declined so much after the economy opened up?  And why so little growth despite so many exports? The narratives proposed to explain these puzzles miss two key pieces: classical demands and informal supplies. To grow faster, the country needs to focus not just on its export supply capacity but also on its capacity to grow domestically and enhance productivity by pulling in informal labor. In a globalized world, this requires developing export niches that generate sufficient domestic value and producing goods and services that are more innovative, more attractive and with more dynamic demands.  

We introduce in the one-sided assignment game by Shapley and Scarf (1974) the requirement called “Treating equals equally and unequal unequally” (TEEUU). We model an assignment as a measurable function that assigns a type of good to each type of agent. We establish: 1) a method, originated in optimal transportation theory, to find a TEEUU assignment in the core whenever it exists- by searching a Pareto optimal assignment- and 2) conditions under which a TEEUU assignment in the core always exists.

Income inequality remains a significant concern in Mexico, despite a slight decrease in its measure in recent decades. This paper investigates the impact of changes in trade patterns resulting from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on income inequality in Mexico over the past 20 years. Through a decomposition into within- and between-sector inequality, this paper reveals that the contribution of the latter has increased in an environment characterized by decreasing overall income inequality. Trade accounts for approximately 14.5% of the total change in between-sector income inequality, representing the most substantial contribution among the factors identified in this study.

This paper aims to analyze how the migratory experience affects the labor trajectories of the Spaniards after they return during the pandemic. The article analyzes how experience in different destination cities has different consequences on the development of their labor trajectories, especially on the reinsertion into the labor market of the country of origin. A qualitative longitudinal methodology was used based on a biographical approach, from which 21 subjects with migratory experience were interviewed in Mexico City or London, and at two different observation moments, subjects who experienced a return migration between both observation moments. It was found that, indeed, the migratory experience accumulated in different migratory destination has implications on the socio-labor reintegration experienced after returning to Spain.

Far from being mere irrational narratives, conspiracy theories constitute a rational interpretation of reality that is becoming increasingly incomprehensible. Donatella Di Cesare argues that these narratives, commonly referred to as “conspiracy theories”, assign blame to specific groups, thereby fueling divisions and political tensions. This process can divert attention from structural issues, leading to both depoliticization and violence against the targeted groups. While Di Cesare’s analysis primarily focuses on antisemitism, the scope of conspiracist configurations could be extended to encompass other forms of racism. She critiques approaches that pathologize conspiracism and instead advocates for the use of hermeneutics and critical theory as tools to understand the social conditions that give rise to such narratives.