The Double Challenge of Market and Social Incorporation: Progress and Bottlenecks in Latin America

Franzoni, Juliana Martínez; Sánchez‐Ancochea, Diego

doi:10.1111/dpr.12055

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“…In Latin America, the minimum wage has played a central welfare role since the first decades of the last century (Barrientos, ; Lavinas, ; Lavinas & Simoes, ; Martínez Franzoni & Sánchez‐Ancochea, ). In Mexico, it was introduced in the Constitution of 1917; it has served as a benchmark to set wages throughout the economy, including the informal sector, and it is used to calculate a wide variety of government provisions, including social insurance benefits and contributions (Moreno‐Brid, Garry, & Monroy Gómez‐Franco, ).…”

Section: Social Policy Tax and Minimum Wage Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…During the 20th century social policy was based on social insurance programs of limited coverage to urban formal sector and their families, until two simultaneous reform trends were triggered in the mid‐1990s: the retrenchment of social insurance and the introduction and expansion of social assistance programs (Barba, ; Brachet‐Márquez, ; Dion, , ). Taxation and minimum wage policy represent two other policy areas that have direct effects on the welfare of the population (Barrientos, ; Howard, ; Lavinas, , Sánchez‐Ancochea, & Martínez‐Franzoni, ; Myles & Pierson, ) and have also been deeply reformed in Mexico. This article analyzes the combined effects of recent social, tax, and wage policy changes in Mexico at the household level.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Aiming to keep poor Mexican families at the breadline (but no higher): The effects of minimum wage, tax, and social policy changes between 1994 and 2012

Leyer

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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Welfare policy in Mexico has been transformed in recent decades. During the years of the import‐substitution industrialization economic strategy and the hegemonic party political regime, social policy was based on social insurance programs of limited coverage to urban formal sector workers and their families. In the mid‐1990s, an unprecedented expansion of social protection through social assistance programs was triggered, along with social insurance reform. This article assesses the effects at the household level of social policy changes, in combination with changes in taxes and the minimum wage, which also impact the welfare of the population. The research applies “model families” to establish effects of social, tax, and minimum wage policy changes across population groups, and their combined potential to combat poverty. Findings show that although taxation and social policy changes increased redistribution towards poor families, their capacity to lift and keep them above poverty thresholds was limited by the drop in the real value of the minimum wage and by strict targeting mechanisms, which exclude families that do not meet eligibility criteria but still fall below poverty lines. Social policy expansion merely subsidized the drop in real minimum wage, and poor families at best remained at similar income levels. Hence, the logic of the design of welfare policy changes can be characterized as aiming to keep poor families on the breadline, but no higher.

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Section: Social Policy Tax and Minimum Wage Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aiming to keep poor Mexican families at the breadline (but no higher): The effects of minimum wage, tax, and social policy changes between 1994 and 2012

Leyer

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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“…A rise in social expenditures occurred in 2004 across the region as a whole in response to a steep rise in GDP, but was particularly marked under New Left governments (Figure ). Public spending has been used to create new forms of social incorporation (Rossi, ) and to establish a ‘“floor” of social rights which cannot be left up to market forces’ (Martínez Franzoni and Sanchéz‐Ancochea, : 275), including greater pension coverage, access to health and social insurance. Even in Uruguay, where social coverage was already high for the region, access has been expanded and primary care strengthened.…”

Section: Human Rights After Democratizationmentioning

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Human Rights and the Pink Tide in Latin America: Which Rights Matter?

Grugel¹,

Fontana²

2018

Development and Change

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Latin America witnessed the election of ‘new Left’ governments in the early 21st century that, in different ways, sought to open a debate about alternatives to paradigms of neoliberal development. What has this meant for the way that human rights are understood and for patterns of human rights compliance? Using qualitative and quantitative evidence, this article discusses how human rights are imagined and the compliance records of new Left governments through the lens of the three ‘generations’ of human rights — political and civil, social and economic, and cultural and environmental rights. The authors draw in particular on evidence from Andean countries and the Southern Cone. While basic civil and individual liberties are still far from guaranteed, especially in the Andean region, new Left countries show better overall performances in relation to socio‐economic rights compared to the past and to other Latin American countries. All new Left governments also demonstrate an increasing interest in ‘third generation’ (cultural and environmental) rights, though this is especially marked in the Andean Left. The authors discuss the tensions around interpretations and categories of human rights, reflect on the stagnation of first generation rights and note the difficulties associated with translating second and third generation rights into policy.

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“…The creation of basic health entitlements for the population at large through the Plan for Universal Access with Explicit Guarantees (Plan de Acceso Universal con Garantías Explícitas, Plan AUGE) has probably been the most significant of these pro-universal moves (Martínez Franzoni and Sánchez-Ancochea, 2014). The AUGE plan created a universal mandate for a list of services that every health insurer is obliged to provide within explicit timelines, thus stopping the practice of private providers offering plans that omitted key procedures such as reproductive healthcare for women (Ewig 2008).…”

Section: More Advances In Tax and Social Policies?mentioning

confidence: 99%