CIECS   20730
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SOBRE CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Vulnerability Factors in the Middle Class: Evidence for Argentina and Mexico Following the Crisis of the 1990s
Autor/es:
GALASSI, GABRIELA - GONZÁLEZ, LEANDRO M.
Revista:
Revista Frontera Norte
Editorial:
Escuela de la Frontera Norte
Referencias:
Lugar: Tijuana; Año: 2011 vol. 24 p. 89 - 116
ISSN:
0187-7372
Resumen:
This paper explores the profile of the Argentinean and Mexican middle classes during the most
recent crisis in both countries. It combines the perspectives of social vulnerability and class
analysis theoretically underlying a matrix of vulnerability and social classes. The analysis used
household surveys in Argentina for 1998 and 2003 and those in Mexico for 1994 and 1996. The
results show that whereas the Mexican middle class was primarily affected during the Tequila
crisis through its physical assets (housing conditions), in Argentina, education and the labor
market were the main mechanisms affected by the 2001 crisis.