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Región y sociedad
On-line version ISSN 2448-4849Print version ISSN 1870-3925
Abstract
STABRIDIS, Omar. The Seed of Vulnerability: Cumulative Disadvantage in Farmworkers from Mexican Export Agroindustry. Región y sociedad [online]. 2022, vol.34, e1656. Epub Apr 01, 2024. ISSN 2448-4849. https://doi.org/10.22198/rys2022/34/1656.
Objective:
To estimate the labor vulnerability of Mexican farmworkers who work in agro-export crops.
Methodology:
A feasible generalized least squares model and a Poisson model were estimated, considering cumulative disadvantages (i.e., ethnicity, gender, and low schooling) as determinants.
Results:
It is found that women and men farmworkers with low schooling tend to have greater labor vulnerability; and those who work with formal growers tend to have greater risks of earning low wages; and those who work with informal growers tend to have risks of suffering worse labor conditions.
Limitations:
Vulnerability estimates are made on a single period, which could question the statistical validity if there were autocorrelation, although there are not clues about this.
Conclusions:
The fact of being a woman and having low schooling operate as a disadvantage in the face of the risks of labor vulnerability in farmworkers in agro-export crops, so estimating vulnerability can be the first step for establishing a public policy aimed to mitigate it.
Keywords : farmworkers; labor vulnerability; cumulative disadvantage; Mexico.