This paper studies the impact of the health decentralization of funds and responsibilities that took place in Mexico in … 1997 on state level health outcomes. It renders two main results. First, the magnitude of transfers from the federal …-reform health expenditures of the federal government in each state. Second, decentralization did not boost the advances in health …

We determine the extent of cyclical comovement in employment among the regions of Mexico by analyzing the covariance of … the disturbances in regional cycles during the period July 1997 - October 2009. Employment refers to the number of workers … structural multivariate model of the employment time series. We find, for most regions, that employment comovement is high and …

person and the employment ratio. These last two variables have trends that make them non-stationary. There are three results … of interest. First, a technology shock reduces both hours and employment if those two variables are specified in first … differences, with the response of employment being stronger than the response of hours. Second, a technology shock increases both …

employment across Mexican states. As a measure of formal employment we use the number of workers with permanent contracts … states are highly heterogeneous with respect to the degree of employment comovement and the association between the state and … national employment. Only in 11 of the 32 states we find that fluctuations in state employment are highly synchronized between …