Experiences, Perceptions, and Expectations of the Business Community in Mexico Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis

The objective of this chapter is to provide a contextualized perspective about the effects of the COVID-19 health crisis for companies with economic activity and fixed installations in Mexico, mainly during the second to third phases of the contingency. For this purpose, data from the INEGI ECOVID-IE 2020 survey is analyzed, which used a sampling frame of 1,873,564 Mexican companies compared by size. Relevant information is provided about the reality of the Mexican business community to report the main sanitary measures implemented, the operational actions used, the sources and types of support received, the best support policies identified, and the income expectations for the following months. Faced with a negative scenario, targeted support strategies from governmental, chambers, and business organizations must be aligned to regain the confidence of the business community to support their continuity.

Factors that Influence the Work Interest of Prospective Undergraduate Education in Industry

This study aims to analyze the influence of working interest in the Mechanical Engineering Education (MEE) student industry on income, attention, willingness, family environment, and community environment; the influence of working interest in the MEE student industry on income expectations; and the influence of working interest in the MEE student industry on attention factors; the influence of working interest in the MEE student industry on the willingness factor; the influence of working interest in the MEE student industry on family environmental factors, and the influence of working interest in the MEE student industry on community environmental factors. This study uses the ex-post-facto method. The study included 82 undergraduate students. Simple random sampling was utilized as the sampling technique with a questionnaire to collect the data collection. The findings revealed that: income expectations, attention, willingness, family environment, and community environment all had a positive and significant influence on working interest in the industry; income expectations had a positive and significant influence on working interest in the industry; attention has a positive and significant influence on working interest in industry, willingness has a positive and significant influence on working interest in the industry, family environment has a positive and significant influence on working interest in the industry, and community environment has a positive and significant influence on working interest in the industry.

Avoiding a “despair death crisis” in Europe: the drivers of human (un)sustainability

The emergence of the despair death crisis in the US stimulates researchers and policymakers to look at subjective wellbeing data from a different perspective. We wonder what can be done to avoid a similar situation in Europe, and to this purpose we analyse factors correlated with depression in the European Social Survey by considering the latter as a proxy of despair deaths. We find the strongest correlations with poor income, high-income expectations, low education, low-skilled jobs, poor social relationships, failure and shocks in affective relational life. We perform robustness checks finding that our results are robust when using alternative measures of psychological health and when instrumenting married status. If causality links between all these drivers and the dependent variable are verified and confirmed, as for marital status, we can conclude that the despair death crisis depends from a mix of material and immaterial factors (with the latter being dominant) that cannot be fully solved by mere monetary redistribution.

Analisis faktor yang mempengaruhi minat mahasiswa menjadi young entrepreneur pasca pandemi Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic that has hit the world, including Indonesia, has destroyed the order of life in all fields, especially the economic sector. Various corporations have experienced a decline in income due to decreased purchasing power, as a result of which there have been layoffs everywhere and many companies have collapsed. This incident automatically increases the unemployment rate sharply. After the COVID-19 pandemic or so-called new normal, economic activity has not returned to normal, but this can be an opportunity as well as a challenge for those who are sensitive and dare to take risks to become entrepreneurs. Students as educated young people are prepared to be able to face real world challenges with the provision of knowledge, freedom and a supportive environment and lucrative income expectations. This study aims to determine the faktors that influence student interest in becoming young entrepreneurs after the COVID-19 pandemic. The method used is multiple linear regression and the sample is students of the University of Muhammadiyah Tasikmalaya semester 5 who have received entrepreneurship courses. The results of the study can be concluded that the faktors of freedom, environment, entrepreneurship education together influence the motivation of students to become young entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, the income expectation faktor has no positive effect on student motivation to become young entrepreneurs after the COVID-19 pandemic t test result < t table (1.442 < 1.960).Keywords: Interest, young entrepreneur, Covid-19

Identifying factors influencing the low-income community in urban slum settlements in South Sumatera, Indonesia

The study is identifying factors influencing the low-income community in urban slum settlements in South Sumatra. The data utilized is primary data is taken through surveys and in-depth interviews. The samples were taken from 115 respondents purposively in the three cities of Palembang, Prabumulih, and Pagar Alam that are receiving benefits from the KOTAKU Program. The methods utilized are descriptive qualitative and quantitative approaches by applying multiple regression models. This study's findings indicate that jointly the variables of education level, age, family members, income expectations, and work types significantly affect the low-income communities' income level. Likewise, partially the education level variables, the family members, income expectations, and types of work positively and significantly affect income level. In contrast, the age variable has a negative and significant effect on the low-income community's income level in urban slums of South Sumatra.

Pengaruh Kepemilikan Aset Investasi, Pengetahuan Bisnis Online, Literasi Keuangan dan Ekspetasi Pendapatan Terhadap Minat Bisnis Online Era Pandemi COVID-19

Individual economic development is very easy and affordable by what each individual has and the environment also helps someone in the success of each individual, especially after the presence of the internet provides many benefits and opportunities for society to achieve goals on a large scale, the internet is also help make it easier for the community to deal with the problem of the economic crisis due to the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic era which made many people have to accept jobs because of the difficulty of the community in being able to carry out activities together and closely because the epidemic is contagious so that people must be able to adjust to open opportunities to be able survive and revive the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic era, one of which is by opening up their own business opportunities using the internet which is commonly known as buying and selling online, but many people are not biased. how many factors, in this study will look at the influence of asset ownership, business knowledge, financial literacy and income expectations that will be achieved if you do business online in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic.