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'Stay at home (if you can)': informal employment and COVID-19 in Mexico

'Stay at home (if you can)': informal employment and COVID-19 in Mexico

Authors :
Carlos Emmanuel Saldaña Villanueva
Joana Cecilia Chapa Cantú
Edgar Mauricio Luna Domínguez
Source :
Revista Finanzas y Política Económica, Vol 15, Iss 1 (2023)
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2023.

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between residential confinement to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, seen as a public policy, and how it affects the informal labor sector, as well as the responseof individuals to the pandemic in the states of Mexico. Forming panels for various levels of informality applied to panel vector auto-regressive (PVAR) shows that staying at home as public policy becomes more effective as informality decreases. In addition, the response of individuals to an increase in the spread of the pande-mic depends on the level of informality: for states with lower rates of informality, individuals respond to a higher concentration of residential confinement. But for states with a higher level of informality, the evidence is not significant. The paper considers the role of informality in the development of an effective public policy.

Details

Language :
English, Spanish; Castilian
ISSN :
22486046 and 20117663
Volume :
15
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Revista Finanzas y Política Económica
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.1186d6e42a01422bb2ea15816c1fb69b
Document Type :
article