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Crisis, employment and inequality in Latin America: A national and regional analysis between Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador

Abstract:

The global economic crisis in 2008 impacts Latin America in a context in which a group of progressive governments had succeeded in managing the destiny of their countries. This paper analyses, at subnationallevei, the experiences of three countries, in the areas of employment and income inequality: Brazil and Ecuador, in which economic policies were reoriented towards a strong social approach, and which are compared with Mexico, a nation in which the Neo-liberal model was reinforced. The results enable to highlight that while inequality in wage income has been reduced in all those countries as a whole, that has not been the case for specific regions of those nations.