We evaluate the impact of the rise in food prices during 2006-2008 on the poverty and extreme poverty rates in Mexico. We concentrate on the poor's consumption of staple foods, and analyze the change in their consumption brought about by changed prices. We also allow households receiving income...

This paper analyzes the impact on the Mexican economy of burdens on firms, in particular those imposed by the Federal Labor Law and the Income Tax Law, whose burdens depend on the size of the firm. It is used a general equilibrium model; it starts from an equilibrium without distortions and...

Este trabajo estudia la relación entre los ingresos del trabajo de los padres y de sus hijos, poniendo especial énfasis en la educación y en la elección de ser empresarios, auto-empleados o empleados, y se capturan los efectos de la heterogeneidad mediante la formación de grupos de ingreso...

This paper studies Mexican poverty levels by state during the 1992-2002 period, in order to evaluate the effect that the business cycle and governmental policies have had on poverty levels. We find that behind the business cycle and the urban poverty are inversely related and that institutional...

En este trabajo estudiamos la relacion entre victimizacion y pobreza, particularmente si la pobreza incrementa o disminuye la probabilidad de ser victima de un delito. Los datos utilizados corresponden a la Encuesta Socioeconomica de Victimizacion y Violencia (ENVVI) 2009. Utilizando un modelo...

This paper studies the relationship between the labor market earnings of parents and their children, with a particular emphasis on education. We incorporate heterogeneity of levels of income in two ways: first, by examining the transmission mechanism of family income by grouping households...

This paper analyzes the effects of a firm-size dependent law, on the Mexican economy which includes a small taxpayers' regime known in Mexico as the Repecos regime. It looks for effects on macroeconomic variables and on the industrial structure, on the proportion of small firms in the economy,...

El presente artículo examina el efecto de las tasas marginales del impuesto sobre la renta en el mercado laboral en México, utilizando una versión modificada del modelo de tributación sobre la renta personal de Rosen (1976). El estudio analiza las reaccciones de los trabajadores asalariados...