En este informe preliminar se presentan algunas formulaciones respecto al mercado de valores en México a partir de un enfoque sociológico, con la intención de superar las visiones estrictamente económicas. Se intenta aquí incorporar factores que por lo general no son consideras por las...

It was supposed to be the magic wand that took care of immigration. The North American Free Trade Agreement was to make Mexico rich and create enough employment incentives to keep its people at home. It has been anything but. More than ten years after the signing of the treaty, economic growth...

Aquella fría mañana bogotana me encaminé hacia el viejo edificio Manuel Murillo Toro, ubicado en un deteriorado sector del centro de la ciudad. Tenía mi primera entrevista y una cierta ansiedad me embargaba. Me indicaron en la portería que subiera al sexto piso. Subí por un viejo ascensor...

In this paper, we examine longitudinal data from Thailand and compare gendered migration patterns to three substantively different destinations (a regional, primarily agricultural wage laborer market; a primate city and its surrounding suburbs; and a newly industrialized, state sponsored export...

Como parte del proyecto “Instituciones y desarrollo: un estudio comparativo”, el presente trabajo analiza la autoridad aeronáutica y aeroportuaria de México. Como se explicará a lo largo del texto, esa autoridad se encuentra distribuida en varias oficinas gubernamentales. Pero entre ellas...

In this talk I want to examine the organization of work in two recuperated enterprises in Argentina. The latter refers to a group of enterprises that have been appropriated by their workers and are run as self-managed cooperatives. There are about 200 of them, employing around 10,000. Some of...

el tema— “es un medio de poder en la lucha económica”. De la misma manera como en la guerra se necesitan “rifles y cañones”, “una bolsa fuerte” es necesaria en tiempos de paz, cuando “las naciones seguirán su lucha inexorable e inevitable por la existencia nacional y el poder...

We use survey data, augmented with data collected from respondents’ medical records, to explore selection into prenatal inputs among a group of urban, mostly unmarried mothers. We explore the extent to which several theoretically important but typically unobserved variables (representing...

How do spiritual and religious values interface with the process of assimilation among the children of immigrants in the United States at the beginning of the New Millennium? The purpose of this paper is to address that question on the basis of ethnographic evidence collected between 2002 and...