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SANCHEZ GONZALEZ, Karen Estefanía  y  GARCIA-JIMENEZ, Humberto. The living wage in Mexico’s car manufacturing industry: the case of BMW in San Luis Potosí. Prob. Des [online]. 2024, vol.55, n.218, pp.63-88.  Epub 28-Ene-2025. ISSN 0301-7036.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iiec.20078951e.2024.218.70143.

This research employed the Anker and Anker (2017) methodology to measure the living wage and assess the socioeconomic reproduction capacity of workers at the lowest wage level. This measurement compares the contractual wage with the minimum wage, the extreme urban poverty and the urban poverty wage and calculates the percentage increase needed to come close to a living wage. The results reveal that the contractual wage is 47% above the minimum wage, 48% above the extreme urban poverty wage, but 4% below the urban poverty wage. And it is significantly below the living wage, with a deficit of 49%.

Palabras llave : living wage; car manufacturing; San Luis Potosí; Mexico; wage policy.

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