During the 2000s Mexico grew less than the average for Latin America. Labour market indicators exhibited mixed changes … international crisis of 2008, but Mexico surpassed its pre-crisis output levels by 2012. Most labour market indicators were affected … negatively by the crisis, and labour earnings and poverty indicators had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. …

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil …, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 19922006. Six dimensions are analysed: income, child attendance at … school, education of the household head, sanitation, water and shelter. Over the study period, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …

, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …

labour earnings went up. At the same time, poverty and inequality largely diminished. The international economic crisis had a …

poverty and inequality indicators decreased substantially between 2000 and 2012. The only negative impact of the international …