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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): Minimum wage and social programs to achieve full economic well-being
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In Mexico, since 2019, minimum wage increases have ranged from 12% to 20%, with the latest increase of 13% scheduled for 2026. One of the objectives of this labor policy is to reduce poverty levels, ensuring that the population has access not only to a basic food basket, but also to a dignified and healthy one. While this policy and its objectives are laudable, obstacles such as informality, inflation, and a lack of investment in job creation undermine its potential success. Consequently, social programs have emerged to complement the minimum wage increases and make them more effective in achieving their goals. The relationship between the effectiveness of the minimum wage, access to a dignified basic food basket, and the "Youth Building the Future" program is the subject of RISAD's July-December 2025 issue. We hope you enjoy it, dear readers.      
Published: 2025-12-03

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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.