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People Adopt Hawking for More Income
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November 03, 2010
Toluca – Mexican families resort to hawking and peddling in order to make ends meet. The common claim is that the Mexican society ostracizes certain social groups.
A scholar from the Colegio Mexiquense, Edgar Esquivel Solís, at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM), said that people make use of their connections with other hawkers to become one. He pointed out that millions of Mexicans in the country resort to hawking either influenced by a family member or by a friend.
Meanwhile, a third of the Mexican population consider that hawking is better than resorting to formal trade.
Esquivel Solis noted that fostering the creation of well-paid jobs, as well as encouraging companies to pay fair salaries, would help dignify once again the concept of “job” as a way to provide for Mexican families and to create better opportunities for workers.
He added that companies do not pay as much as they should and hence, employees and workers are forced to resort to peddling. He also said that one of the multiple factors that drive people to hawking is the low quality of the standards of education in the country.
Esquivel Solis noted that education is, however, not the ideal solution to ending this type of business because there is the case of “learned hawking,” meaning, people who are high school graduates and peddle. Lastly, Esquivel Solis said that consumers boast a 75.9 percent level of satisfaction of products bought to hawkers and that 75.6 of hawkers are male.
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