Empleo desde casa en México: estimación con el modelo Dingel-Neiman

This study estimates the jobs that can be plausibly done at home in Mexico, using the methodology proposed by Dingel and Neiman (2020a) and the National Occupation and Employment Survey of inegi. The estimate shows us that in Mexico 19.6% of jobs can be done at home, with significant differences between states, types of occupa-tions and even economic sectors. An additional result is that people with higher levels of education have greater possibilities of doing work from home, and that jobs at home is strongly correlated with the gdp per capita and the index of economic complexity of the states. This shows that the most vulnerable jobs due to the contagion by covid-19 are located in primary sectors or elementary activities, in jobs with low levels of educa-tion, which increases the structural differences in the Mexican labor market.

Efecto crítico de la pandemia por covid-19 en el empleo de México

The cycle of formal employment during 2020, following the Covid-19 pandemic, is analyzed in three stages: paralysis with destruction, interrupted recovery, and relapse. Likewise, using data from the Mexican Social Security Institute on monthly changes to the numbers of insured workers, it was possible to identify the impact of govern-ment management, and trace the history of infection provoked by the disease, in lost or gained employment at each stage. Changes to the numbers of those in employment are illustrated by the economic sector, state, size of economic unit, salary range, sex and age group of the workers. The highest rate of unemployment was in tourism and recre-ational services, the most populous states with dense metropolitan areas, medium and large economic units, among young workers, the very young and those over 60 years old, and those with the worst wages. It is estimated that it will take at least until 2022 for the quality of work to recover and the accumulated deficit to be restored

Estimación del feminicidio en México con base en homicidios en solitario

Women in Mexico face two wars that threaten their lives; on the one hand, the vio-lence of machismo and misogyny and on the other, the generalized violence caused by the “war against drugs”. While part of the criminal violence usually implies multiple homicide events, femicides usually take place as actions specifically directed at them individually. This paper establishes the limitations of the methodological tools used by other investigations in the delimitation of femicide and offers a new operative defini-tion. The analysis of multiple murders reveals that the death of a significant propor-tion of women is linked to the death of other men, and simultaneously, the analysis of individual homicide shows a reconfiguration of risk spaces for women not necessarily associated with criminal violence.

Saberes tradicionales y transición agroecológica en la Mixteca Poblana

This article contains results of a broad research conducted in the rural community of Ayoxuxtla de Zapata in the Mixteca Baja Poblana. The main objective of the research is to locate, describe and analyze agroecological processes from the close relationship between knowledge, practices and beliefs; considering that local traditional knowl-edge (culture) is in connection with the practical (productive) implications and the development of a cosmos in the reproduction of beliefs. It starts from the hypothesis that traditional knowledge is part of the local identity and are fundamental elements of the agroecological transition. Biotic and cultural processes related to traditional agroecosystems such as tlacolol are described and analyzed. Through the theoretical approach of ethnoecology and by means of a coarse ethnography, an integral reading of knowledge, practices and beliefs was made, which is systematized and presented in a biocultural matrix. In a table on epistemic plots of both agricultural activities is pre-sented the comparison with agroindustrial production systems such as monoculture greenhouses found in the region.

La política del Antropoceno: progreso y naturaleza en el Cañón del Sumidero

Based on the author’s fieldwork as a tour guide in the Sumidero Canyon of the Grijalva River in Chiapas, Mexico, this article examines the conceptual limits and possibilities of the term Anthropocene. It shows how the concept helps to highlight issues concerned with a conceptual division made between nature and culture, but also how the breadth of the term and the reference to an epoch can lead to difficulties for anyone wishing to take local histories into account. The article concludes that the Anthropo-cene should be understood above all as a political concept, that corresponds to a broad change in the discourse that has occurred during the last decades, from the idea of progress to an emphasis on nature, and not as a descriptive term.

Gasto de bolsillo y gastos catastróficos en salud en hogares mexicanos

The implementation of the System of Social Protection in Health (ssph) had the aim of reaching universal health coverage. However, while this system has been successful on increasing coverage rates, it has not eradicated out-of-pocket expenses nor catastrophic health expenditures. Using the enigh 2018 (the income and expenditures survey), and a series of beta and logistic regression models, this article analyses the fac-tor associated with increases in the proportion of household expenses for health and the likelihood of experiencing a catastrophic health expenditure. Findings indicate that gender and education of household head, household composition, but mainly ru-ral residency, are factors determining the presence of these expenses.