En este trabajo se estudian los factores que determinan el comportamiento de la fuerza de trabajo de la industria maquiladora de exportacion de los estados fronterizo que colindan con los estados del sur de los Estados Unidos.

THIS WORK EXPOSE THE DETERMINAT'S FACTORS OF THE CIUDAD JUAREZ LABOR'S DEMAND OF THE MAQUILADORA INDUSTRY. ESTE TRABAJO DESARROLLA UN MODELO TEORICO DE COMPORTAMIENTO DE LA DEMANDA DE TRABAJO, APLICADO A LA INDUSTRIA MAQUILADORA SITUADA EN LA CIUDAD FRONTERIZA DE CD. JUAREZ MEXICO.

The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...

A growth model with endogenous innovation and accumulation of high-tech and low- tech human capital is developed. The model accounts for a recently established fact about human capital composition, which stated that \the richest countries are investing proportionally less than middle income...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of economic well-being. We provide a methodology to compute well-being by aggregating different socio-economic dimensions with factor analysis technique. We also estimate quality of good governance (using latent variable approach) and a...

This paper provides empirical evidence, from the study of sixteen major Indian states for the period 1980-2001, that under the economic reform process, the better institutional mechanism could actually help economies to grow faster with higher level of economic well-being. We estimate economic...

This paper investigates the hypothesis that economic growth is critical in inducing well-being during economic reforms. The regional (16 Indian states and 28 Chinese provinces) level study of India and China show that the quality of growth has been essential for well-being. We estimate level of...