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In recent years, the labor market in Mexico has become increasingly precarious, as the proportion of the employed population that receives low wages has risen and the critical conditions of occupation have grown exponentially. To enrich the concept of labor precariousness, we aggregated three additional variables. Through a logit model -with data from the Social Mobility Survey in Mexico 2017-we proved that a set of variables that are external to individuals have statistically significant effects on the employment trajectory and social mobility of the employed population. These results empirically validate The Great Gatsby Curve for Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Statistical Analysis" presents the dynamics of the editing process of the CIENCIA ergo-sum journal during the period 2020-2021. During this time, the journal consolidated its digital version and improved the response time to authors without compromising the quality of the reviews. Additionally, a significant increase in the number of accepted papers for publication was observed. The journal seeks to attract more collaborations from foreign institutions to consolidate its international status and thanks the referees who participated in the review of the articles. Details are also mentioned about the physical edition of the journal, the editing process, and the publication of special issues, as well as the internationalization index and the use of JCI as a metric for comparing journals. [Extracted from the article]

A luz de la ley de Okun (1983), en su versión de tasas de crecimiento, se evaluó la sensibilidad del desempleo a la actividad económica estatal en México (desde inicios de 2004 hasta el primer semestre de 2018). Para capturar la heterogeneidad de las 32 entidades federativas se contrastaron los resultados de regresiones individuales con la estimación de datos de panel de efectos fijos. El coeficiente de Okun es significativo y con el signo correcto en 22 entidades federativas, con una variación entre -7,21 y -1,25. Las diez entidades restantes (con signo incorrecto y coeficiente no significativo) se caracterizan por deficientes desempeños económicos, sociales e institucionales. Se observa que la gran recesión generó cambios estructurales en 15 de las 22 entidades federativas donde sí se cumple la ley de Okun en todo el período; además, en estas 22 entidades el índice del Estado de derecho y la tasa de condiciones críticas de ocupación determinan la sensibilidad del crecimiento del desempleo al crecimiento del producto. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The misery index (MI) was devised to summarize the most evident costs for a society, attempting to objectively measure the loss in general welfare. It has been remarked in the literature that economic growth exerts a negative impact on the MI; however, analyses of this relationship in the tourism field have been neglected. This study assessed the effectiveness of the tourism sector at improving welfare conditions by measuring the impact of tourism GDP on the misery index and providing a theoretical framework for the relationship between tourism and the MI. A quantitative analysis was conducted using quarterly time series data for the period 2005Q1–2021Q2. Firstly, the existence of a long-term relationship was tested by using the Toda–Yamamoto procedure, and secondly, by applying linear and nonlinear ARDL models. The main results show that tourism can help to reduce the loss of welfare mirrored by the MI. These findings have policy implications, as they provide evidence that expanding the tourism sector counters the MI, and, consequently, the economic malaises derived from it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, all regions in Indonesia have had negative economic growth. It also increased the poverty rate in the country. The government must allocate pro-growth and poverty reduction programs to maintain economic growth and simultaneously reduce poverty. This study aims to measure the relative efficiency of pro-growth poverty reduction spending of local governments in seven regions in Indonesia. This study compares the efficiency scores before and during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2015 to 2019 and 2020. The inputs are five types of government spending: education, health, economic, social protection, and infrastructure. The outputs are economic growth and poverty reduction. Data envelopment analysis with an output-oriented model and a return to scale variable approach is applied. The results show that the highest average local government efficiency score was in Kalimantan, with the lowest being in Sulawesi. The efficiency scores of local governments in the COVID-19 pandemic differ between regions: it remained stable in Kalimantan, increased in Java-Bali, Sumatra, and Sulawesi, and experienced a decline in Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, and Papua. The study concludes that economic growth and poverty reduction can simultaneously measure government efficiency. To be relatively efficient, local governments need to consider allocating pro-growth poverty reduction spending to improve the conditions of both outputs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is bad economic news a self-fulfilling prophecy? This paper examines the local employment effects of exposure to pessimistic economic news. By combining detailed data on newspaper subscriptions with a tabulation of negative newspaper stories, the flow of such news across the United States during the 2008 recession is reconstructed at county and quarterly levels. The resulting data set is used to estimate the causal impact of such news on unemployment, hiring, and separation rates. Exposure to pessimistic news is found to suppress hiring and total employment during the early stages of the recession by up to 40% compared to prerecession levels; such news can account for some 7% of the total reduction in employment between 2007 and 2010. Content analysis of the articles in question rules out the possibility that this relationship is driven by reverse causation, that is, newspapers merely reporting poor economic performance. Further analysis of Google search data suggests that the effect is mediated by changes in public attitude caused by exposure to negative news. These findings imply that labor market outcomes can differ due to arbitrary differences in the dispersal of economic information. Bearings on economic theory, including the notions of 'sunspots' and 'animal spirits,' are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyze, by means of the difference version of Okun's law, the relationship between tourism sector growth and unemployment in Mexico during the period 2000Q2–2018Q4. The results show that tourism growth is a palliative for unemployment, whereas unemployment reduces the growth of the tourism sector. The results also show that the relationship between the mentioned variables becomes stronger during an economic crisis and weaker during expansion periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]