Current Issue
The new government administration in Mexico brings with it its own proposals; but also, commitments to maintain the ideology of social policies, as well as agreements with the business sector and society itself. In this sense, in light of the speculation about the 12% increase in the minimum wage for 2025, which is circulating in some media, we ask ourselves: why would the increase for 2025 have to be less than the average increase (20%) that was determined in the previous administration? There are several positions, one of them is: to consider inflationary levels within this increase in wages; another, an external commitment to caring for the environment, that is, to avoid a possible overproduction due to the fact of recovering the increase in wages. And a last one, derived from this salary increase, companies could choose to cut staff and increase informality, and it would be necessary to investigate whether or not informal employment has an impact on the economy. These stories are what RISAD shares with you, dear readers, in this August-December 2024 issue.
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is to make a periodical analysis of wages levels in Mexico. This analysis is made by a comparison between the values of the purchasing power parity (PPP) of 34 countries retrieved from The World Bank database. The comparison has the objective of generate critical information for making decisions.
At the same time the IOLW tries to accomplish 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals from the ONU, that are:
was launched in spring of 2019 as a permanent multidisciplinary collaboration project made up of a team of researchers from Universidad La Salle Mexico. The project was born as a result of the concern to develop a research space that addresses salary conditions in the world with due diligence and academic rigor, both from a global and domestic perspective. The project is aimed at assessing real wages and determining what should be a living wage for each economy and for each work activity in a globalized world. The project carries out its work based on the context that, in the current globalized world, there are structures that prevent large portions of the population in the world from enjoying decent wages, due to systemic structures that have caused the participation of labor in the economy to be consistently reduced in the past fifty years.
