Relations Between Income Profile of Domestic Units and Wages in the Agricultural Sector in Chile and Mexico

Abstract

This article typifies the income profile that forms the reproduction of the Domestic Units (UDs) of agricultural work in Chile and Mexico, identifying different types of UDs and relating each type with the agricultural wages of the UDs in a comparative fashion. The analysis explores empirically within the current structural configuration of the economy (the reproduction pattern of capital), the hypothesis that a labour market with a significant presence of UDs’ income profile, where the weight of salary sources is lower, is related to the market’s tendency to comparatively lower agricultural wages with regard to markets where UDs with higher importance of salaried income profile predominate. For this purpose, this article compares the cases of these two countries with different income profiles and wage levels in agriculture.