Participación laboral femenina, servicios de cuidados infantiles y movilidad social en Nuevo León : Female labor participation, childcare services and social mobility in Nuevo León

Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez; Francisco Atzin Chiguil Rojas

doi:10.29105/ensayos_esp1.1-1

Authors

PhD. Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez El Colegio de México https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0251-5051
Francisco Atzin Chiguil Rojas El Colegio de México https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0961-6157

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29105/ensayos_esp1.1-1

Keywords:

Social mobility, Female Labor Participation, Childcare, Care System, Nuevo León

Abstract

We study the determinants of female labor force participation (FLFP) and its relationship with social mobility in Nuevo León, focusing on the importance of childcare services. A linear regression and LASSO analysis are conducted to study the determinants of FLFP. Our main finding is that increasing access to public childcare is associated with a 13.3 percentage point increase in FLFP among women with at least two children. Furthermore, if all women with at least two children had access to childcare, the FLFP in Nuevo León could increase by 3.3 percentage points. Subsequently, the role of childcare in women’s socioeconomic status is studied using a decomposition method and an ordered logit. We find that greater access to childcare would reduce various indices of social immobility by between 10.9% and 13.4%. Our results highlight the importance of a childcare system in terms of public policy.

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Author Biographies

PhD. Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, El Colegio de México

Profesor-Investigador en el Centro de Estudios Económicos de El Colegio de México. Obtuvo su Doctorado en Economía en la Universidad de California, Berkeley en 2009. Tiene el nivel 3 en el Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. En 2018 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales para científicos jóvenes otorgado por la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. Su investigación ha sido citada en medios de comunicación nacionales e internacionales como The Economist, The New York Times, El País, entre otros. Sus más recientes libros son Desigualdades. Por qué nos beneficia un país más igualitario editado por Grano de Sal y Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias y Así no es en coautoría con Viri Ríos editado por Grijalbo.

Francisco Atzin Chiguil Rojas, El Colegio de México

Economista por la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y Maestro en economía por El Colegio de México. Se ha desempeñado como asesor en la Unidad de Ingresos no Tributarios y sobre Hidrocarburos en la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público y como economista adscrito a la Subgubernatura del Dr. Gerardo Esquivel en la Junta de Gobierno del Banco de México. Recientemente obtuvo el tercer lugar en el Premio Nacional de las Finanzas Públicas 2023. Actualmente es asistente de investigación en el Centro de Estudios Económicos de El Colegio de México.

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