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html:Size="6" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">,  </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Jesús Zaragoza Martínez3&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Received: 13/06/2025 Accepted: 22/09/2025&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>Abstract&#10;</B></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In Chilpancingo  de los Bravo, the  high leve! of  labor informality is notable, limiting the benefits of the minimum wage, as many workers continue to lack access to  social security or job security. This  study  aims  to  evaluate  the  impact  of  the  minimum  wage  on  reducing  multidimensional poverty  among two  groups  of  workers:  formal  and  informal  workers  in  this  locality,  between 2018 and 2023. Using a quantitative  approach with a non-experimental design, secondary data obtained from official sources were analyzed to  establish the  relationship between the increase in  the  minimum  wage  and  changes  in  poverty  indicators  in  the  region. The  results  show  that structural factors persist that limit significant poverty reduction: high labor informality and the lack  of  effective  complementary  policies.  The  study  concludes  that  the minimum  wage  is  not sufficient  to  transform  the  living conditions  of the  most  vulnerable  sectors.  A  comprehensive strategy is required that articulates wage increases with public policies aimed at labor inclusion, strengthening the social protection system, and equitable access to  opportunities.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>Key Words&#10;</B></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">13 -  Well-being and Poverty, E26 - Informal Economy, )3 -  Wages, )68  - Public Policy&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>lntroduction&#10;</B></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Poverty is and has been  for  a long time, a central tapie in the analysis  of  countries' social situation,  their  development,  and  life  of  their  people.  Multiple  efforts  are  being  made  for measuring the phenomenon in a quantitative manner, as for  identifying the processes associated in  arder to incise in the public policies that are responsible  for  improving people's the quality of life.  Without  question  the  minimum  wage  has  been  one  of  the  fundamental  factors  that  has affected the workers.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In Mexico, the measurement of multidimensional poverty has been developed by C0NEVAL, based  on  an  analytical  framework  that  considers  the  lack  of  social  rights  as  a  key  factor  to determine  poverty  (C0NEVAL,  2023). Through  this  approach,  persistent  inequalities  have  been identified in states with high levels of poverty, such as <I>Guerrero</I><I>,</I><I> </I>which makes it  more relevant to&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">study the impact of the minimum wage on the region.</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="14" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="116"/><Row ss:Index="15" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="42"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="7" html:Face="Calibri" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">1 </Font><Font html:Size="9" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Profesora investigadora, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Guerrero, México. Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero, México. +52 747 471 9310. </Font><Font html:Size="9" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#0000FF"><U>niviasenen@gmail.com</U></Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="16" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="93"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:StyleID="s13"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="7" html:Face="Calibri" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">2  </Font><Font html:Size="9" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Profesora investigadora, Universidad Autónoma  del Estado de Guerrero, México. Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero, México. +52 747 471 9310.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="7" html:Face="Calibri" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">3  </Font><Font html:Size="9" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Profesor investigador, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Guerrero, México. Chilpancingo  de los Bravo, Guerrero,&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="9" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">México. +52 747 471 9310.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Calibri" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>Vol. 7, No. 2, ISSN. En trámite, pp:14-24</B></Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="17" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="409"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:MergeDown="1" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In fact, income is an important component for measuring poverty; however, an increase in the minimum  wage it's not the only factor that can help mitigate poverty. The other associated components  are  also  relevant,  as  considered  by  various  authors  and  institutions  as  essential aspects in the measurement  of poverty.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">State  of  </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Guerrer</I><I>o</I><I>  </I><I> </I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">and  particularly  </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Chílpancing</I><I>o</I><I>  </I><I> </I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">presents  high  poverty  and  inequality indexes, which  makes  ita   relevant  scenario  to analyze  the impact  of the minimum  wage.   The relation between the labor market and poverty has been widely studied, highlighting that informal employment  remains  a  limiting factor  for  the  positive  impact  of wage  increases.  (Reyes  et al., 2021).&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The  inequality  access  to  formal  jobs prevents  the benefits  from increasing the  minimum wage to  be equitably distributed between the working population. (C0NEVAL, 2023)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Authors like Moreno et al. (2024)  assure that in Mexico the minimum wage has become a fundamental  instrument  of social  policies of the current administration. Their  annual increase, over the inflation, has played a key role to reduce the presence of poverty. So far in the current administration, marked by the pandemic, the absence of countercyclical fiscal policies anda weak increase in the activity, the minimum wage has been the key to eradicate poverty.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">This investigation pretends to correlate multidimensional poverty with the minimum wage in  both group of workers.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The discussion of minimum wage is not justan economic debate, but also a topic of social justice.  In </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Chílpancingo</I><I>,</I><I> </I><I> </I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">where  more  than the  60%  of the  population  live in  multidimensional poverty  (INEGI,  2023), the  minimum  wage  can  play  a  key  role in  upgrading the  quality  of life. Nevertheless, the impact depends on factors such as the labor market, inflation, and productivity.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Particularly in </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Guerrero</I><I>,</I><I> </I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">according to  data from C0NEVAL (2023), minimum wage increase has had positive effects in the reduction in labor poverty, but the impact has been less than the multidimensional  poverty.  According  to   the  study  made  by  Carmona   et  al.  (2023)   in  the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, the high leve! of informality in the region limits the benefits of the  minimum  wage  because  many  workers  continue  without  access  to  social  security  nor employment stability.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Chílpancing</I><I>o</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>d</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>los</I><I> </I><I>Brav</I><I>o</I><I> </I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">is the capital of the state of </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Guerrero</I><I>,</I><I> </I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">located in a mountainous region  in  the  southeast  of  Mexico.  The  geographical  location  influences  the  availability  of resources and the access to  basic services such as education and health. The tourism also plays and  important  role  in  the  local  economy  but  faces  challenges  due  to  security  concerns  and infrastructural development.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The principal social deficiencies of </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Chílpancing</I><I>o</I><I> </I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">in 2020 were privations to access to social security, basic living services and health services.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The incidence of moderate and extreme poverty, as well as the population vulnerable due to  social  deprivations  and incomes, highlights  the necessity  of policies  and programs  that can address these issues in an integral way.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The   current   study   examines   the   relation   between   the   minimum   wage   and   the multidimensional  poverty  in  </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Chílpancingo</I><I>,</I><I> </I><I> </I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">considering  the  economic  literature  as  empirical evidence. The investigation  is centered in  answering the following question: </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Ho</I><I>w</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>mínimum</I><I> </I><I>wag</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>ímpacts</I><I> </I><I>i</I><I>n</I><I> </I><I>th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>reductío</I><I>n</I><I> </I><I>o</I><I>f</I><I> </I><I>th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>multídímensíona</I><I>l</I><I> </I><I>poverty</I><I> </I><I>i</I><I>n</I><I> </I><I>Chílpancingo</I><I>,</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>Guerrero?&#10;</I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">General  0bjective:  Evaluate  the  impact  of  the  minimum  wage  in  the  reduction  of  the multidimensional poverty in two groups of workers: formal and informal in </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>Chílpancingo</I><I>,</I><I> </I><I>Guerrero,&#10;</I></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">between the years 2018 and 2023.</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="18" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="291"/><Row ss:Index="19" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="409"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:MergeDown="1" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Specific 0bjectives:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Analyze  the  relation  between  the  indicators  of  multidimensional  poverty  and  minimum wage on formal and informal workers.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Compare  the  indicators  of  multidimensional  poverty  befare  and  after  the  increments  of minimum wage in  the  period 2018 -  2023.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Collect and analyze the perceptions of the workers about the impact of the minimum wage in  their quality of life.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Relevance  of the manuscript:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The   reduction   of   the   poverty   is   one   of   the   main   objectives   that   have   the   States, Governments,  private  firms,  and  international  organisms.  In  the  case  of  Mexico,  it  has  been proven  different  strategies  to  reduce  it   in  time.  They  have  tried  focalized  social  programs, conditioned cash transfers, among others.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In the last ten years, the Mexican government had shifted on their social and labor policies. The  social  one  has  become  universal,  and  the  amount  wired  has  increased  considerably.  In contrast, the labor policies has been transformed by significative  changes such asan increase of almost  the  double  of  the  previous  minimum  wage  in  real  terms,  the  ban  on  outsourcing,  the democratization of trade unions, and other labor reforms&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The  tapie that  is discussed  permanently  is the  academical  environment  and  in  spaces  of public policies is about the mechanisms  to  promotean upgrade in  the increases  of the  workers, particularly that social class where those at the lower end of the wage seale are located, assuring a  fairer  distribution  in  the  wages,  lowering  the  increasing  inequality  in  the  income  of  the population.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In fact, is well known that the medium wage of  the countries  doesn't explain the  behavior of  the  distribution  of  wages  between  the  different  group  of  salaried  workers,  exists  sufficient empirical evidence that shows that in the las few years the  inequality wage has increased in most countries in the World.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Certain level of inequality in the wage salary could be the result by the profile of the worker (such as level of instruction, age, tenure in a position), being then the profile by itself the variable that could cause incidence  in  the  variation  of the income across all deciles. Nevertheless,  other series  of  factors  considered  could  cause  a  difference  in  the  variation  in  the  level  of  income, between others like gender, firm size, and labor market structure (formal and informal).&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">However, exists the academic  discussion  and policies  over the  value of  the  real salary and the  work  demand.  The  increasing  number   of  minimum  wages  lowers  the  opportunities  of employment to the workers of lower incomes and promotes the informal work.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">This investigation  pretends to  analyze the  relation between the  multidimensional poverty indicator and the minimum wage on formal and informal workers.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>Literature Review/Theoretical Framework&#10;</B></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">From a historical perspective, the origins of the minimum wage are since 1896, when it was recognized that the wages received by workers in New Zeland and Australia, particularly  women and young people, resulted insufficient for them and their families, which took the authorities of those countries to stablish a minimum wage. (Bernabéu, 2019).&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In the case of Mexico, the minimum wage that was received by peasants and workers wasn't fairer,  because  a  lot   of  people  would  receive  a  miserable  wage  that  make  visible  the  level  of exploitation that was under the working class of  the  time. Additionally, to this terrible situation,&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">they  had  activities  that  would  put  on  risk  the  liberty  of the workers,  as  it  was  the  case  of  las</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="20" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="276"/><Row ss:Index="21" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="409"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="14" ss:MergeDown="1" ss:StyleID="s07"/></Row><Row ss:Index="22" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="383"/><Row ss:Index="23" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="409"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:MergeDown="1" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">changed, holding up around a 7%  of  the total population. This phenomenon reflects inequality in the distribution  of the income and the access to  basic services, that continue to affect the most vulnerable sector of the population.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The inflation  in the las years  has been a  critica! factor, reaching a  peak  of  8.7%  in  2022. This  has  reduced  the purchase  power  of  the  salaries,  which  affects  directly  to  the  low-income households. This situation has generated a great discussion on the capacity of the minimum wage to  cover the basic needs of the  population and its  effectiveness as a tool to reduce poverty.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In  2023, the  minimum  wage  in  Mexico  is still  below the threshold  of poverty  by incomes established   by  CONEVAL.  Meanwhile   a  family  of  four   members   needs  monthly  $11,290.80 (Mexican pesos)  to  not  be in  poverty  by income, while the minimum  wage only covers monthly&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">$2,401.20, representing only the 21% of the necessary quantity. lt's estimated that to accomplish the decent living standard stipulated by the Mexican Constitution, the minimum salary should be multiplied 4.7 times its current value (CONVEAL, 2023).&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In  this  context,  the  rising incomes  in  the minimum  wage  had generated  debates  over its effects  in  the  reduction  of  poverty.  Although  they  have  improved  the  incomes  of  the  formal workers, their impact in the multidimensional poverty has been moderated dueto the persistence of the  labor informality.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The relationship between the minimum wage and the reduction of the poverty is not direct. Although  an increase  in  the wage  helps to  improve  the  incomes, the persistence  of  an informal job and the lack of access to  basic services blocks the uniform positive effects in ali the population (CNSM, 2025). Experts suggest that the upgrade of the minimum salary should be accompanied by measures  such as incentives  to  the  labor  formalization  and subsidies to  the  access  housing, education, and health.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Currently,  in  Mexico  the  official  measurement  of  the  poverty  does  not   depend  on  just overcome   a   line   of  minimum   income,   but   rather   it   is  recognized   as   a   multidimensional phenomenon that vulnerates the  rights and people's freedoms.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Reyes et  al. (2024) assure that this measurement  combines two  large spaces of the  leve! of life: the  economic  well-being  and  the  social  rights.  Additionally,  they  considered  that  his  two spaces are spheres of the quality of life that can't be add up to one sole measurement of the well-being, therefore, establishes differentiated forms of conceiving the deprivation in each one: in the case of  economic well-being, uses the  current per capita household income asan indicator  leve! of  live  in  the  households   and  stablished  two   minimum  thresholds  that  can  represent  the minimum  wage  of  a  household  has  to  have  in  order  to  satisfy  their  necessities:  the  line  of minimum  well-being  (LBM)  or  the  extreme  poverty  by  incomes  (associated  by  a  basic  food basket), and the line of well-being (LB) or the poverty by incomes (associated with both the food and non-food basic baskets)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Gómez  and  Munguía  (2023)  assure  that  Mexico  was  the   first  country  in  having  this multidimensional measure  of  poverty,  that,  besides  the  thresholds  of  income,  considers  other factors that blind the people against poverty.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">According to  Villalobos  (2023)  poverty in Mexico is characterized  by its  multidimensional nature, where structural  factors such as education, housing, health, and work play a crucial role in  its  dynamic.  The  relation  between  the  minimum  wage  and  poverty  has  been  taken  over numerous studies that search to identify in which measure the increases in salaries could mitigate the extreme poverty and upgrade the quality of life of the population. (CONEVAL, 2023).&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The studies of the minimum wage have generated severa! theories, finding:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The Theory  of  the competitive  market, which  offers that increases  in  the minimum  wage could  generate  unemployment  if  the  companies  reduce  the  hiring due  to  the  increasing  labor costs. (Stiglitz, 2022).</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="24" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="294"/><Row ss:Index="25" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="409"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:MergeDown="1" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The  theory  of  monopsony  suggests  that  in  markets  where  a  few  firms  domínate  the employment, the mínimum wage could increase employment and the incomes without generating adverse effects. (Card </Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">&amp; </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Krueger, 1994).&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The induced productivity theory, explains that a higher mínimum wage could incentive the workers   to   increase   their   productivity,   which   benefits   the   employees   and  the   employers (Neumark </Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">&amp; </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Wascher, 2008).&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In Brazil, Lemos (2009) demonstrated that increases in salaries upgraded the well-being of the workers without generating significant losses of  employment.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In  another  geography,  Mexico,  Campos  et  al.  (2017)  they  found  that  the  upgrades  in mínimum  wage have reduced the  informal  labor and has improved the incomes  of  the workers, even if  their impact in poverty has still been moderated.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>Used Methodology&#10;</B></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The design was non-experimental, cross-sectional, and correlational. lntegrated in two methodology  phases:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Quantitative  phase:  analysis  of  the  multidimensional  poverty  indicators  (income,  health, education, social security, and others) coming from C0NEVAL, INEGI, and EN0E.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Qualitative phase: semi-structured interviews to workers in the formal and informal sectors to  catch perceptions over the changes in  their quality of life.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">For the sample it  has been considered micro-data from the EN0E for  the period 2014-2023. The EN0E is the consolidation and merge of the  <I>Encuest</I><I>a</I><I> </I><I>Naciona</I><I>l</I><I> </I><I>d</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>Emple</I><I>o</I><I> </I><I>Urban</I><I>o</I><I> </I>(ENEU) and the <I>Encuest</I><I>a</I><I> </I><I>Naciona</I><I>l</I><I> </I><I>d</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>Emple</I><I>o</I><I> </I>(ENE) that for more than 20 years have given information of the population occupied and non-occupied economicaly.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">lt   has  been  taken  into  account  the  quantity  that  wasn't  excessive  of  people  with  the objective  of not  bias the obtained  results, considering that this is the number  varíes  constantly by the  movement of the workers from an area to  another.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Criteria of inclusion People over 18 years.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Residents of <I>Chílpancingo</I><I>,</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>Guerrero</I><I>,</I><I> </I>during the period 2018-2023.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Workers  that  have  received  an  income  equivalent  or  like  the  mínimum  wage  in  sorne moment of that period.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">For the formal group: registe red employees on the IMSS, ISSSTE or that counts with a formal contract.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">For the  informal group: workers without a contract, social security, or work by its  own. Exclusion criteria&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">People that do not  live in a habitual way in <I>Chílpancingo.&#10;</I></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Workers which income surpasses three times the mínimum wage. Public servants or people with senior management positions.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Distribution of participants lnterviewed a total of 42 people:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">22 workers in the formal sector, distributed in the next categories: Commerce: 10&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Prívate health services: 6&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Public administration: 6</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="26" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="286"/><Row ss:Index="27" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="409"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:MergeDown="1" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">20  workers in the informal sector:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Street vending: 8&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Personal care services  (hairdressing industry, cleaning): 5 Construction  work, among other trades: 7&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The selection was intentional  and by convenience, seeking representativeness of the  labor activities predominant in the region.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Techniques  and instruments  of recollection  of data:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Quantitative:  data  bases  from  C0NVEVAL  (multidimensional indicators  of  poverty)  INEGI (2020 Census and EN0E), and Banco de México (2022)  (information about inflation and salaries)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Qualitative:  semi-structured  interviews  applied  in  person  or  by  phone,  recorded  and transcript. lt was designed a guide with open questions oriented to explore:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Changes in  the  available income.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Access to  basic services and social security.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Perception  of the mínimum wage as a tool to upgrade the  well-being.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The   qualitative   information   was   categorized   and   analyzed   by  thematic   codification, allowing triangulation  with the static data.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Procedures followed&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">1.Documental    review    of   the   mínimum    wage   in    Mexico    and   its    impact   in   the multidimensional poverty.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">2.            Application  of the interviews to the selected workers.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">3.            Comparative  analysis  of  indicators  of  multidimensional  poverty  in  the  workers befare and after the increments in the mínimum wage.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">4.            Triangulation  of the findings with secondary references and economic theory. Results and discussion&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The  findings  show  that  the increase  in  the  mínimum  wage  has  increased  the incomes  of formal workers and has reduced partially the multidimensional poverty in <I>Chílpancingo</I><I>.</I><I> </I>However, la  the  informal  labor  keeps  being a  significant  obstacle.  In  the  informal  sector,  the  increasing salaries  doesn't  have  the  same  impact, which  generates  a  breach  in  the  benefits  of  the  salary politics.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The evaluated indicators of poverty include:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• lnsufficient per capita income&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• Lack of access to  social security&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• No access to  health and education&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In the formal sector, the workers experienced upgrades in their incomes and access to  social benefits, nevertheless,  in  the informal  sector, the  increases  in  the  mínimum  wage didn't impact significantly in an upgrade in their life conditions.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Perceptions  of the workers:&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• "The  increase  in  the  mínimum  wage  helped  to  upgrade  my incomes, but  the prices  also went up." (Formal worker)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• "In my informal  job, the mínimum salary didn't impactas much, </Font><Font html:Size="7" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">1  </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">keep earning the same." (Informal worker)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• "The increase in  the mínimum wage allowed me to  have better access to  health services." (Formal worker)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• "Even  though  my salary  went  up, the  cost  of  transportation and alimentation  increased too." (Informal worker)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• "Now  I  can  earn  a  lot   more  for  emergencies,  but  it's  still  insufficient  for  improving  my&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">quality of life." (Formal worker)</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="28" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="281"/><Row ss:Index="29" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="224"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:StyleID="s14"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• "The increase in  my salary didn't significate a change in  my job, because I still depend on the demand of the  day." (Informal worker)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• "My children now can continue with their education without a lot  of  economic difficulties." (Formal worker)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">• "In the informal sector, not  always is respected the minimum wage, therefore, 1 didn't see any real difference."  (Informal worker)&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Next,   its    presented    comparative    data    over    the    evolution    of   the   indicators    of multidimensional poverty  in  formal  and informal  workers  befare  and after the increases  in  the&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">minimum salary.</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="30" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="74"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="10" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>Table 1&#10;</B></Font><Font html:Size="13" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000"><U><I>Comparison</I></U><I> </I><I>o</I><I>f</I><I> </I><I>lndicator</I><I>s</I><I> </I><I>o</I><I>f</I><I> </I><I>Multidimensiona</I><I>l</I><I> 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<U>capit</U><U>a</U> income Lack  of  access  to social <U>security&#10;</U></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">No      access      to</Font></ss:Data></Cell><Cell ss:Index="5" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="7" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="8" ss:MergeAcross="2" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="11" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="12" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="13" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="15" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s02"/></Row><Row ss:Index="33" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="20"><Cell ss:Index="5" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="7" ss:StyleID="s17"><ss:Data ss:Type="Number" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">0.450000</ss:Data></Cell><Cell ss:Index="8" ss:MergeAcross="2" ss:StyleID="s18"><ss:Data ss:Type="Number" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">0.300000</ss:Data></Cell><Cell ss:Index="11" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s19"><ss:Data 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html:Color="#000000"><U>&#160;</U><U>&#160;</U><U>educatio</U><U>n</U><U>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</U><U>&#160;</U></Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="38" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" 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Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000"><I>"In</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>m</I><I>y</I><I> </I><I>informa</I><I>l</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>job,</I><I> </I><I>th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>mínimu</I><I>m</I><I> </I><I>salar</I><I>y</I><I> </I><I>didn'</I><I>t</I><I> </I><I>impactas</I><I> </I><I>much''.&#10;</I></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">According  to  C0NEVAL  </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">(2023),  </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">the  minimum  wage  still  covers  only  the  </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">21%  </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">of   the necessary income for  not to  be in  poverty by in come, which aligns with the results of the study respect to the insufficiency of the income as a structural phenomenon.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The  increase  in  the  minimum  wage  has  improved  formal  incomes,  but  inflations  and&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">informality limit the real effect over the total percapita income, especially in the informal sector.</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="41" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="17"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="2" ss:StyleID="s04"/><Cell ss:Index="4" ss:MergeAcross="12" ss:StyleID="s07"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Wingdings" html:Color="#000000"></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">    </Font><Font html:Size="13" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000"><I>Lac</I><I>k</I><I> </I><I>o</I><I>f</I><I> </I><I>acces</I><I>s</I><I> </I><I>to</I><I> </I><I>socia</I><I>l</I><I> </I><I>security:</I></Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="42" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="52"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In  </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">2018, </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">only the </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">10% </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">of the formal workers lack social security, reducing </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">5% </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">in  </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">2023.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In exchange, in  the  informal sector, most of the workers  </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">(90%) </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">were still without access to  social  security  in  </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">2018  </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">and  in  </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">2023 </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">was  only  reduced  to  </Font><Font html:Size="12" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">88%. </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">This  demonstrates  that  the minimum wage had lower incidence in upgrade this aspect in the informal sector.</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="43" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="188"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">From the  qualitative aspect, there can be found opinions of the participant which express, <I>"No</I><I>w</I><I> </I><I>I</I><I> </I><I>ca</I><I>n</I><I> </I><I>ear</I><I>n</I><I> </I><I>a</I><I> </I><I>lo</I><I>t</I><I> </I><I>mor</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>far</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>emergencies</I><I>"</I><I> </I>(formal); <I>"I</I><I>n</I><I> </I><I>th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>informa</I><I>l</I><I> </I><I>sector</I><I>,</I><I> </I><I>no</I><I>t</I><I> </I><I>always</I><I> </I><I>is</I><I> </I><I>respected</I><I> </I><I>th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>mínimum</I><I> </I><I>wage</I><I>,</I><I> </I><I>therefore</I><I>,</I><I> </I><I>I</I><I> </I><I>didn'</I><I>t</I><I> </I><I>se</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>any</I><I> </I><I>rea</I><I>l</I><I> </I><I>difference.</I><I>"</I><I> </I><I> </I>(informal).&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In this sense Carmona  et  al. (2023)  and Reyes  et  al. (2021)  confirmed  that the access  of the   social  security  is  highly  correlated  with  the formal  work.  The  informality  is  a  structural obstacle for  the employees to  access to  these rights.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Even though the minimum wage went up, the social security cover-up it's still inequal. The increase  has  effect  where  there's  no  institutional  framework  (formal  sector),  but  it's  almost&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">irrelevant for whom they are out  of the  labor legal framework.</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="44" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="16"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="3" ss:StyleID="s02"/><Cell ss:Index="4" ss:MergeAcross="12" ss:StyleID="s07"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Wingdings" html:Color="#000000"></Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#000000">    </Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><I>N</I><I>o</I><I> </I><I>access</I><I> </I><I>t</I><I>o</I><I> </I><I>healt</I><I>h</I><I> </I><I>an</I><I>d</I><I> </I><I>education:</I></Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="45" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="158"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In the  formal sector, the lack to health services went form 25% in 2018 to 15% in 2023, showing a significative upgrade.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Nevertheless, in the  informal  sector, the  reduction  was minimum of 70%  in 2018 to  65% in  2023,  which  indicates  that  the  informal  workers  still  face  difficulties  to  access  to  health services.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Formal  workers  expose that <I>"Th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>increas</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>i</I><I>n</I><I> </I><I>th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>mínimum</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>wag</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>allowe</I><I>d</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>m</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>t</I><I>o</I><I> </I><I> </I><I>hav</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>better</I><I> </I><I>access</I><I> </I><I>t</I><I>o</I><I> </I><I>healt</I><I>h</I><I> </I><I>services''</I><I>.</I><I> </I>Workers in the informal sector reference: <I>"W</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>stil</I><I>l</I><I> </I><I>depen</I><I>d</I><I> </I><I>o</I><I>n</I><I> </I><I>th</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>demand</I><I> </I><I>ofth</I><I>e</I><I> </I><I>day''.&#10;</I></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">According to CONEVAL (2022) and Gómez and Munguía (2023) the lack of access to  health is  one  of  the  critica!  dimensions  of  the  multidimensional  poverty,  specially  between  informal workers.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The next graph shows and helps as a conclusion  of the findings presented before</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="46" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="45"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s23"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>Graph 1</B></Font></ss:Data></Cell><Cell ss:Index="3" ss:MergeAcross="13" ss:StyleID="s24"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="7" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#777777">Evolution of </Font><Font html:Size="7" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#626262">multidimensional</Font><Font html:Size="7" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#777777">poverty reduction</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="47" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="77"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s07"/><Cell ss:Index="3" ss:StyleID="s07"/><Cell ss:Index="4" ss:MergeAcross="1" ss:StyleID="s07"/><Cell ss:Index="6" ss:MergeAcross="10" ss:StyleID="s13"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="5" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#777777">90                                                                                                                                                                    Formal </Font><Font html:Size="5" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#898989">2018&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="7" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#4211F2">■</Font><Font html:Size="6" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#777777">Formal 2023&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="6" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#777777">70&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="8" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#E87031">■ </Font><Font html:Size="5" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#626262">1</Font><Font html:Size="5" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#777777">nformal </Font><Font html:Size="6" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#777777">2018&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="6" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#626262">1</Font><Font html:Size="6" html:Face="Times New Roman" x:Family="Roman" html:Color="#777777">nformal 2023</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="48" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="219"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:StyleID="s14"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The  results  show  that  even  the  minimum  wage  could  impact  indirectly  in the access  of health through formalization  of affiliation, in the practice just the formal workers really benefit. The change is marginal in the informal workers.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">In general  sense, it's  exposed  that  the informal  workers  do  not  perceive  a  real  upgrade, meanwhile the formals do, although limited by the  increase of prices.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The  focus  of  "Economy  of  two   sectors"  (Gómez  y  Munguía,  2023)  helps  explain  this&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">inequality. Referring that the benefits of the minimum wage are limited to the formal sector.</Font></ss:Data></Cell></Row><Row ss:Index="49" ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="409"><Cell ss:Index="1" ss:MergeAcross="15" ss:MergeDown="1" ss:StyleID="s12"><ss:Data ss:Type="String" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>Conclusions&#10;</B></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">The increase in the  minimum wage has demonstrated to  have a significant  positive impact in  the  reduction  of  the  multidimensional  poverty  in  the  formal  sector  of  the  economy.  This in crease has allowed a lot  of  formal workers improve their quality of life and access to  resources that  were  previously  limited.  However,  this  favorable  effect  has  been  limited  in  the informal sector, where the lack of regulation  and labor  protection  difficult that the salary increments  be traduced as substantial  upgrades in the  conditions of life of the workers.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Is important to highlight that the upgrade of indicators  of poverty observed in  the  view of the formal  sector  is measured  by the access  of  social  security  and the adequate  labor  benefits. These factors are essentials  dueto its guaranty of a protection network that allows the workers face   majar   economic   and   social   adversities.   In   contrast,   the   informal   sector   lacks   these guarantees, which perpetuates a cycle of vulnerability and exclusion.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">However, structural barriers are still persistent  in the informal  sector because they hinder that the increments in the wages ereate a real impact in the quality of life of their workers. These barriers  include  the  lack  of  access  to  basic  services,  the  labor  instability,  and  the  absence  of fundamental  labor rights. Without an adequate intervention, is less probable that the efforts to upgrade the minimum salary can effectively reduce the  poverty in this sector.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Finally, is suggested the urgent implementation of politics of fiscal incentives for those firms that  decide  to  formalize  their  workers.  This  measure  not  just  contributes  to  upgrade  the labor conditions,  but  also  would  foment  a  fairer  and  more  equal  environment.  Is  crucial  to  develop programs of capacitation oriented to upgrade the  employability  of the informal workers, offering them the necessary too Is to  access to  better labor opportunities and exit the cycle of poverty.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">lt  is suggested  for  future investigations about the tapie to work on the labor  costs and its relation in inflationary spirals, the possibility to raise the salary without generating stress on the prices, and to  study the inflation  in a  perspective  of  distributive  conflict  including the business adjustments through greater  prices and benefits  considering the formal  and informal  sectors of work.&#10;</Font><Font html:Size="11" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000"><B>References&#10;</B></Font><Font html:Size="10" html:Face="Arial" x:Family="Swiss" html:Color="#000000">Archivo  General  de  la  Nación  (AGN)   (2025).  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