Economic Crisis, Domestic Reorganisation and Women's Work in Guadalajara, Mexico

Rocha, Mercedes González de la

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“…First, we examine changes in labor force participation across states. As the economy declines, fewer people with strong attachments to the labor force (for example prime-aged males and some elderly) will be able to work but more secondary workers (generally women, children and some elderly) will enter the labor force (Beneria, 1992;Chant, 1994;Gonzalez de la Rocha, 1988;Moser, 1995;Gonzalez de la Rocha, 1995). We use as our first measure of economic crisis the reduction in labor force participation for prime-age males and the increase in participation rates for women, children, and the elderly.…”

Section: Vt How Economic Crisis Affects Mortalitymentioning

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Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

Cutler¹,

Knaul²,

Lozano³

et al. 2000

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We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four widescale economic crises in Mexico in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates were about 5 to 7 percent higher in the crisis years compared to the years just prior to the crisis. This translates into a 0.4 percent increase in mortality for the elderly and a 0.06 percent increase in mortality for the very young. We find tentative evidence that economic crises affect mortality by reducing incomes and possibly by placing a greater burden on the medical sector, but not by forcing less healthy members of the population to work or by forcing primary caregivers to go to work.

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Section: Vt How Economic Crisis Affects Mortalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

Cutler¹,

Knaul²,

Lozano³

et al. 2000

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“…One would, therefore, expect to see some cooperation between members in relation to who decides what, who does what and who obtains what goods and services. There does indeed exist some evidence to suggest that, through explicit or implicit negotiations, household members can work out solutions that contribute to the enhancement of collective welfare (Fernandez‐Kelly, ; Gonzales de la Rocha, ). Consequently, given its character as a mix of conflict and co‐operation (Sen, ), I believe the household remains an appropriate unit for analysing behavioural responses to poverty.…”

Section: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Behaviour Of Poor Householdsmentioning

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Extending the Resource‐Based Approach to Livelihoods: An Urban Application toTurkishGecekonduHouseholds

Eroğlu

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article critically examines the existing conceptualizations of and explanations for the socioeconomic behaviour of poor households in order to lay the foundations of a new model designed to extend the existing resource-based approach to livelihoods. The proposed model groups 'household responses to poverty' into four key types: income generation, income allocation, consumption and investment. In explaining household responses and their poverty outcomes, it focuses on the role of different resources beyond income (e.g. social capital), along with the wider structural forces and household characteristics that influence the availability and benefit delivery capacity of these resources. The new model is shown to provide a theoretically more sophisticated framework with greater explanatory power and empirical applicability.

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“…In the context of recurring crises in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s, the proportion of extended households increased in some countries as a response to the economic privations that lower‐income sectors experienced and as a means of pooling resources and meeting needs such as shelter (Jelin and Diaz‐Munoz, 2003). Similarly, household strategies, such as the tendency for women to take on paid work, the out‐migration of younger and able‐bodied members, or pooling and sharing of resources across extended kin networks can change, sometimes very rapidly, in response to the broader context within which these networks are embedded (Cerrutti, 2000; Gonzalez de la Rocha, 1988). This underlines the critical point that the family is not an isolated institution (Jelin and Diaz‐Munoz, 2003).…”

Section: Families and The Provision Of Unpaid Carementioning

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Rethinking Care in a Development Context: An Introduction

Razavi

2011

Development and Change

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The issue of care has been the subject of extensive scholarly debate with reference to the advanced industrialized countries and their welfare regimes. Economic restructuring in the developing world has raised feminist concerns about social reproduction more broadly, and women's increasing burdens of unpaid care work in particular. While the present moment may not be marked by a generalized care crisis, systems of care provision are under strain in some contexts and for some social groups. Furthermore, care has emerged, or is emerging, as a legitimate subject of public debate and policy on the agendas of some civil society actors, developing country governments and international organizations. An increasing number of governments are experimenting with new ways of responding to care needs in their societies. However, these have been insufficiently recognized and analysed — a lacuna that the present collection of papers seeks to address. In an increasingly unequal world, where gender inequalities intersect with ever‐widening income inequalities, and where the options for securing good care are limited for the socially disadvantaged, the failure to socialize the costs of care will feed into and exacerbate existing inequalities.

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Economic Crisis, Domestic Reorganisation and Women's Work in Guadalajara, Mexico

Cited by 54 publications

References 8 publications

Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

Extending the Resource‐Based Approach to Livelihoods: An Urban Application toTurkishGecekonduHouseholds

Rethinking Care in a Development Context: An Introduction

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