Guanajuato, Gto., April 9, 2016.- Professors from the University of Guanajuato (UG), obtain the first national place at the IX research Award, summoned by "Ensayos Revista de Economía" from the "Universidad de Nuevo León".

This academic achievement was due to the research work named "Discriminación de Género en Redes Laborales" (Gender discrimination in Labor networks) which, is a Theoretical Model, whose central objective is to analyze the differences that exist in the performance of labor markets of men and women, under the assumption that there is a cultural inequality in the way society treat each gender.

This project was made by the Head Professor A, Dr. Coralia Azucena Quintero Rojas; the Associate Professor C, Dr. Lari Arthur Viianto; and graduate M. Vladimir Martínez Aranajo; all from the Deaprtment of Economy and Finance from the Division of Economic-Administrative Sciences of Campus Guanajuato from the University of Guanajuato.

Dr. Lari Viianto explained that a commong way to find a job was through personal contacts, "it is a very used mean to receive information and know where you can get a job" he explained.

He added that there is evidence that in many countries is the main method to find a job, and that the idea of this article is to think in a, what happens when we share the information, but making a gender discrimination?

According to Dr. Viianto there are surveys done in the world where they think when there's a job shortage, there is a trend to believe that man is who has to work.

One of the bases this model takes, is that there is no wage discrimination, and that the probability to receive information of existent work is identical; the discrimination would base in the mechanism in which the information distributes in the social network.

An innovation of this project, Dr. Coralia Quintero assured, is the use of Models Bases in Agents (MBA), which is a simulation system, establishing behavior regulations in the agents to obtain information about this kind of interactions; meaning, a social experiment but without people, so it may not be ethically incorrect.

For that, there is a transference model of information through fixed social networks, whose nodes correspond to couples of men and women who are economically active.

The model, is then used to evaluate the hypothesis about the existence of gender roles, reflected in the flows of information on gender discrimination in labor networks.

It is worth mentioning that the objective of this work is not to prove that discrimination exists for the woman, but evaluates the impact of discrimination in the transmission of information related to job offers, on the possibilities for each gender to find a job.

You can check this article in the volume XXXIV, of "Ensayos Revista de Economía" from the "Universidad de Nuevo León", which is indexed in CONACYT.