Economic in¿equality? in rural households in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2000 – 2018)

Abstract

In the academic literature there is a position that rural and indigenous regions that expel labor to larger urban regions tend to generate processes of income inequality. Based on that premise, the rural areas of Quintana Roo, Mexico, if they typically expel labor to regions such as the Riviera Maya and Costa Maya, it has begun to generate the gaps pointed out in the theory. For this purpose, we analyzed the social conditions modules of the Mexican National Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2000 – 2018 (Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso y Gasto 2000 – 2018 de los Hogares de México, ENIGH). With such data, the Gini coefficient in rural households was estimated and the Lorenz curve was plotted to illustrate the levels of inequality and accumulation. Among the most important results is the fact that rural households in Quintana Roo escape the theoretical postulates, since they showed a slight decrease in inequality during the studied period.