Under-Rewarded Efforts: The Elusive Quest for Prosperity in Mexico

Levy, Santiago

doi:10.18235/0001189

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“…One view is that distortions are preventing the transfer of these workers and associated capital to more productive, larger firms. Levy (2018), for instance, argues that in Mexico, the fact that large firms need to pay health insurance, taxes, and the like offers an implicit subsidy to microenterprises and leads to an excessive investment in lowproductivity projects. Relatedly, very high minimum wages may prevent workers from transiting to more productive sectors.…”

Section: How Do Microenterprises and Informal Firms Unplugged From Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Productivity Revisited: Shifting Paradigms in Analysis and Policy

Cusolito¹,

Maloney²

2018

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Section: How Do Microenterprises and Informal Firms Unplugged From Thmentioning

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Productivity Revisited: Shifting Paradigms in Analysis and Policy

Cusolito¹,

Maloney²

2018

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“…As noted earlier, even the World Bank and the IMF have seemed to come around to the idea of 19. See this view, for example, in Levy (2008Levy ( , 2018 and tentatively in Barrientos (2019). universalism. However, as argued by Fischer (2012Fischer ( , 2018 and Martinez Franzoni and Sanchez-Ancochea (2016), of crucial importance is the extent to which the idea of universalistic social policy has been watered down to its most minimalist connotation (as is common in UN and ILO positions) or appropriated by agendas that are not, in reality, particularly universalistic (as with the World Bank positioning).…”

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The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right‐wing Populism

Fischer¹

2020

Development and Change

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This Forum Debate explores the confluence of neoliberal, populist, conservative and reactionary influences on contemporary ideologies and practices of social policy, with a focus on the poorer peripheries of global capitalism. Several fundamental tensions are highlighted, which are largely overlooked by the social policy and development literatures. First, many recent social policy innovations have been discredited by their association with neoliberalism. The rising political Right has been much more successful than the Left at exploiting this discontent, despite simultaneously deepening many aspects of neoliberalism once in power. At the same time, right‐wing movements have proactively used social policy as a political tool to fashion the social order along lines deemed amenable for their interests and ideologies, expressed along nationalist, racialized, ethnicized, nativist, religious, patriarchal or other lines, and to innovate practices of segregation, exclusion and subordination. While these synergies of neoliberal and right‐wing populism are observed globally, they need to be carefully and differentially interpreted from the perspective of late industrializing (or late welfare state) peripheral countries. Nonetheless, common themes occurring across both centres and peripheries, as identified by the invited contributions to this Debate section, include exclusionary identity politics, hierarchical and subordinating inclusions, and patriarchal familialism. In this context, segregationism is an ominous possibility of post‐neoliberal social policy.

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“…This section explores the relationship between the level of informality and labor market institutions. Specifically, we estimate a series of cross-country regressions of the level of informality measured as the ratio of informal employment over total non-agricultural employment 18 on several indicators capturing different aspects of labor market institutions including: hiring and firing practices; flexibility of wage determination; redundancy costs (in weeks of salary); the ratio of the minimum wage to value added per worker; a dummy variable that takes the value 1 if a thirdparty approval is required to dismiss one worker and zero otherwise; and a dummy variable 17 See for example Levy (2018). 18 As before, the measure of informality is based on the latest available year for a given country of the indicator presented in ILO (2018).…”

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