CLASS POSITIONING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES IN POST-CONVERTIBILITY ARGENTINA (2006-2015)

PABLO AMSLER

Online Conference

Congreso; 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics; 2021

AHE-YSI-IGDC

This article analyzes the transformations in the life conditions associated with the different class positions of the social structure of Santa Fe city between 2006 and 2015, under the question: What profile did the classes acquire in relation to their life conditions in the postconvertibility period? To answer this question we address three different dimensions of analysis: material life conditions, employment conditions and the territorial condition of the classes.For the first, we used the save capacity as a proxy variable for household income based on the Keynesian assumption of the marginal propensity to consume. In regard to the second dimension, we analyze the evolution of registered and unregistered employment. In relation to the third dimension, it was approached from the notion of socioeconomic residential segregation (SRS).Among the main findings, we identify that the period was characterized by being a process of recomposition in terms of material and employment conditions for the intermediate stratum of the middle classes and for the qualified stratum of the popular classes, but also a persistence for the stratum of unskilled manual workers with respect to the high levels of job insecurity and socioeconomic residential segregation.