Conferencia pronunciada el 22 de marzo de 2000 en el Auditorio del CIESS, ciudad de México, en el marco del ciclo de conferencias "La política social, el urgente desafío de América Latina" y en carácter de conmemoración del 37º Aniversario del CIESS.

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Social capital, defined as the set of social networks that a person has in order to obtain benefits, is used by the population as a mechanism for providing resources, to cushion shocks in consumption and to obtain information on available employment opportunities. This study employs a logistic model to characterize the manner in which people access the labor market in Mexico through the use of...

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Documento informativo sobre el III Congreso Americano de Medicina de la Seguridad Social, convocado por el Comité Permanente Interamericano de Seguridad Social y la Comisión Regional Americana Médico Social, órgano técnico de acción conjunta de la Asociación Internacional de la Seguridad Social y del Comité Permanente y realizado del 12 al 18 de noviembre de 1972 en la ciudad de Panamá teniendo...

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Breve reseña sobre Arthur J. Altmeyer, funcionario de la seguridad social de Estados Unidos quien falleció el 16 de octubre de 1972.

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Reseña del licenciado Rodrigo Fournier Guevara, a quien se le dio posesión del cargo como Director del CIESS a partir de 1973, quien previamente se había destacado por ser Presidente de la Comisión de Seguridad Social de la Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo, Vicepresidente en determinadas ocasiones de la Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social y de su Comité Permanente.

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Se transcribe el programa académicos de cursos del CIESS correspondientes al año 1973. Programa que consta de once cursos y un seminario. De éstos, cuatro cursos se refieren a asuntos médicos; otros cuatro a asuntos administrativos; uno a asuntos de ingeniería y mantenimiento; otro a relaciones humanas; uno más a la Técnica General de la Seguridad Social y el seminario está destinado a estudios...

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This research assessed the effects of several contextual factors (e.g, neighborhood insecurity, evaluation of public spaces, infrastructure, low risk behaviors) on social cohesion and residential satisfaction, in the context of low and medium-low socio economic status of individuals nearby renovated public spaces (parks and recreational facilities) in Mexico. The research method is based on...

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The formation of social capital is critical for developing countries. This paper investigates the effects of attempts to recover public spaces in marginalized areas of Mexico. The effects are estimated through balancing in the propensity scores. We focus on the results of perception of safety, support and social capital. When efforts are made to recover public spaces, the perception of safety...

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An organization is a group of persons who satisfy established membership requirement and whose form and function are generally acknowledged. An organization's membership requirements may be based on inherited or earned traits. Organizations exist because they provide a setting in which members with similar traits can meet their physical and their socioemotional needs. As the relative importance...

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Increasing levels of violence in Mexico, which have the potential to damage the very fabric of 1 society, as well as impact key economic variables, led us to analyze the effect that changes in the perception of violence had on social capital fluctuations (including associative capital) between 2006 and 2011. This was a period in which an anti-violence and anti-organized crime policy was launched...

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This study analyzes the relationship between social capital types and access to health services in Mexico. To this end, access to healthcare data from the 2006 ENCASU and 2011 ENCAS was validated using 2006 and 2012 ENSANU results. Indicators were found to be consistent. A statistical analysis of the distribution of social capital and health indicators by region, as well as by rural or urban area...

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Se presenta la relación de los delegados asistentes al III Congreso Americano de Medicina de la Seguridad Social, realizado del 12 al 18 de noviembre de 1972 en la ciudad de Panamá en el Salón Bellavista del Hotel "El Panamá", sede de las reuniones.

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Se ha relacionado el capital social a la eficiencia en los mercados (Arrow, 1972), al refuerzo del contrato (Durlauf y Fafchamps, 2004) y en general al desarrollo y bienestar (Keefer y Knack 1997; Putnam 2000; Knack y Zak 2003). En el presente trabajo hemos investigado los determinantes del capital social empíricamente, centrándose en tres medidas comunes aproximadas de este: dos ligadas a la...

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In recent decades, interest has increased in identifying, estimating and linking social capital to a variety of well-being variables in which the production of certain benefits or performance is key. Research has involved the confluence of several disciplines: economics, sociology, anthropology and psychology, to name a few. Although consensus on the definition of a single indicator for measuring...

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The international financial crisis of 2008-2009, its impact on economic activity and contrasting I responses to face it have given new impetus to the debate Between academics, international organization representatives and public officers on the scope for public policies to reduce the adverse impact of externa) shocks and trigger sustainable long-term growth in production and employment. The...

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El presente documento, está centrado en las Mipyme y en las políticas públicas para su fomento en la economía costarricense. El análisis, se hace a partir de un enfoque alternativo de clasificación de las actividades económicas, el cual permite precisar con mayor detalle las desigualdades entre las actividades tradicionales de amplia trayectoria en la economía, de aquellas actividades que han...

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We present a descriptive analysis of the results of Mexico's 2009 Economic Census regarding the use of bank credit and accounts by productive entities (companies). INEGI was requested to prepare a set of statistics regarding various company characteristics that are relevant to the decisions made by institutions offering banking services. Information was grouped according to company size and to...

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Micro and small-sized enterprises (MSE) have a central role in economic development in Latin America given their large contribution to employment generation, their share in the total number of firms and, to a lesser extent, their contribution to gross domestic product. Yet, their production is mainly oriented to the domestic market and they are characterized by an increasing productivity gap with...

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This is a stimulating book which explores the relationship between employment conditions and health outcomes. The authors provide a conceptual framework to illustrate the channels through which health outcomes are determined and affected; this framework includes individual and aggregate variables, such as the economic, political and environmental conditions. The book also includes case studies...

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This paper aims to analyse the space and time distribution of the infant mortality rate (IMR) at municipality level in Colombia before and after conferring greater responsibilities to the municipalities for the administration of the local health care systems. Using special econometrics, we find that there is a geographical concentration of IMR persisting over time and defining two groups of...

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