Stratification economics has emerged as a field that puts historically and institutionally
determined intergroup hierarchies at the forefront of distributive analysis. However, most of
the existing theoretical and empirical literature has focused on studying the US stratification
regime, limiting the potential application of this analytical framework to other geographies.
This paper applies the theoretical framework of stratification economics to analyze the
Mexican distributive regime. In the process, we show that expanding the regional focus of …

The literature concerned with this subject finds that during the first half of the first decade of
the XXIst century, the inequality in the distribution of this type of income decreased.[...] The
policy change implemented in 2018 included a different treatment between the north border
and the rest of the country, where the municipalities in the north have experienced more
aggressive annual 22 Subordinate workers represented 69% of the employed population in
the first quarter of 2022.[...] The implications of this discussion are critical in interpreting the …