For my race shall speak inequality: an estimation of the Gini coefficient for 2020

Abstract

Professionally speaking the National Autonomous University of Mexico treats equals unequally. Using the scarce information available on payments to workers (administrative, academics and officials-authorities) we build a unit of equivalence, that is to say, we made their payments comparable –the hourly pay received by any “puma” worker, for example by an hourly teacher and a full-time professor. Just as CONEVAL adds to people’s income the transfers received, we add to the payments of officials the various monetary and non-monetary “transfers” they receive regularly. To estimate the inequality of payments we used the Gini coefficient –which amounted to 0.65 in 2020. At the end of the document we specify the actions that the authorities must take to implement a transversal policy that tempers the unequal treatment of their workers. If the microsociety composed by all kinds of “pumas” decides, together, to improve the rules of the distribution of payments and monetary and in-kind privileges, it will contribute positively to the fight against the historical inequalities suffered throughout our country –and the opposite.