Salary policy of public universities: Mexico and Venezuela

Abstract

The training of quality professionals and the generation of relevant technology and science are at least two fundamental elements for the development of Latin American countries and, this situation is closely related to the impact that is generated as a result of the academic work mostly developed in the universities of the region. This paper search to characterize the wage policy of the academics Mexican and Venezuelan in the period from 2000 to 2010. It is a comparative and documentary research. The essay is structured in two dimensions namely: The presentation of data containing the significant elements of higher education systems (enrollment, institutions, funding policy and academics); secondly, it exposed the structure of the wage policy, it study the realities and detail some substantive differences. Finally the comparative study reveals the non-compliance of the two States in relation to the wage definitions contemplated in their constitutional texts. The policy Mexican of heterologous "incentive structure" type academic teaches immediate economic benefits for the academic's survival and does not guarantee him a decent pension for the enjoyment of his old age; while the Venezuelan policy of wages of type homologated specifies the legal non-compliance of the "Homologation standards" by the Venezuelan State for more than three decades for the salary increase of the academics.