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Cambios en el empleo e ingreso de los hogares rurales de México, 2002-2007
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)
This article analyzes changes in Mexico’s rural labor market by identifying the main sources of employment and income of rural households for the 2002-2007 period. Quantitative analysis is based on panel data from the ...
Main determinants of informality: a regional analysis for MexicoDeterminantes principales de la informalidad: un análisis regional para México
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)
The aim of this study is to examine the most frequently-cited factors in order to explain informality in Mexico and to know if they have the same effect across the country. First, through cross-section analysis of microdata ...
Legislative opposition and political patronage. Public Sector Wages in Mexican States (2001-2012)Oposición legislativa y patronazgo político. Gasto en empleo público de los estados en México, 2001-2012
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)
This article argues that political patronage depends on the opposition’s bargaining strength in Congress. This hypothesis is tested by analyzing Mexican state governments’ public spending on salaries. Statistical information ...
Changes and continuities in the beneficiary population of the Direct Support to Older Adults Program in Nuevo Leon, 2004-2014Cambios y permanencias en la población beneficiaria del Programa de Apoyo Directo al Adulto Mayor en Nuevo León, 2004-2014
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-03-01)
The current situation faced by the older population is adverse because most have neither income from a pension nor social security. Efforts have been made trying to contribute to alleviating this state of affairs, such ...
Using a dominance criterion to select a human development indexUso de un criterio de dominancia para seleccionar un índice de desarrollo humano
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)
The purpose of this study was to compare, via a dominance analysis, two subjective and three objective indexes by using the standard deviation, critic and entropy methods in order to determine the dominant index. The ...
Continuity and changes in tourism activities in Tijuana, 1920-1949Continuidad y cambios en las actividades turísticas de Tijuana, 1920-1949
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-24)
The systematic study of tourism in Baja California in the first half of the 20th century is still a task to be done. This paper, based on documentary analysis, is a first approach to the subject, although focused on Tijuana. ...
Nuevo Leon’s citrus sector: characterization of the agri-food system as a platform for integration of the producer with agro-industryEl sector citrícola de Nuevo León: caracterización del sistema agroalimentario como plataforma de integración del productor con la agroindustria
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)
The aim of the study is to identify the producers and marketers in Nuevo Leon’s citrus system in order to integrate them into the agro-industrial sector on the basis of the processes of the methodological approach to the ...
Discrimination, poverty and vulnerability: the intricacies of social inequality in MexicoDiscriminación, pobreza y vulnerabilidad: los entresijos de la desigualdad social en México
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)
This article presents an approach to the study of the relationship between discrimination and poverty in Mexico. By using the databases of the 2010 National Survey on Discrimination, the importance of poverty is quantified ...
Arizona against illegal immigration (SB 1070 law); the bivalence of the “Final Solution” conceptArizona contra la inmigración ilegal (ley SB1070); la bivalencia del concepto “solución final”
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)
The purpose of this paper is to expose the undocumented immigration situation in 2010 in view of the enactment of the SB 1070 law in Arizona. The issue is addressed on the basis of how legislation was dealt with by the ...
Growth, institutions and power groups. The forgotten effects in Sinaloa, 1994-2014Crecimiento, instituciones y grupos de poder. Los efectos olvidados en Sinaloa, 1994-2014
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)
Through a non-numerical model, this research identifies the relations of causality revealed by omissions of the power groups that are in charge of political and economic institutions in Sinaloa, and which account for the ...