Results of the study to propose the amount of the increase to the minimum wage for 2021 and its repercussions

Abstract

In 2019 and 2020, the increases to the Minimum Wage had a positive impact on the fall in Labor Poverty and reduced the wage gap that had existed since 1976; In this sense, this work aims to carry out a projection of a proposal to increase the minimum wage for 2021 in Mexico without affecting the variables inflation and employment. Using a data panel and a multivariate regression model, it is shown that the increase could be in a nominal range of 19 to 23% to reach an amount of between $ 146.63 to $ 151.56, in addition to showing that the salary increases had positive repercussions in the face of the CoViD-19 pandemic.