Prostitution doesn't pay in Mexico
Mexico's prostitutes must be very poor. Dear reader, if you were to have some spare time and decided to leisurely skim through Mexico's national accounts tables, you will also come across a table 'Household consumption and private non-profit, total spending on the domestic market', classified by purpose showing household spending categories. In this table, within the section 'Total miscellaneous goods and services', is a sub-heading - 'Prostitution'. Obviously it must be a fairly important industry in there. However, the recorded expenditure in this category for last few years has consistently been zero. Does that mean that Mexico's prostitutes are the most underpaid in work and they do their job just for the love of God? The reality is probably that prostitution is big business but mostly in informal sector. Thus a big expenditure category with zero official expenditure.
Mexico's prostitutes must be very poor. Dear reader, if you were to have some spare time and decided to leisurely skim through Mexico's national accounts tables, you will also come across a table 'Household consumption and private non-profit, total spending on the domestic market', classified by purpose showing household spending categories. In this table, within the section 'Total miscellaneous goods and services', is a sub-heading - 'Prostitution'. Obviously it must be a fairly important industry in there. However, the recorded expenditure in this category for last few years has consistently been zero. Does that mean that Mexico's prostitutes are the most underpaid in work and they do their job just for the love of God? The reality is probably that prostitution is big business but mostly in informal sector. Thus a big expenditure category with zero official expenditure.
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