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efficiency and compare them to those in the statistical literature. We consider the relation between competition and efficiency …
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The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these two components of productivity growth. We do so by...
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We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s anti-dumping regime, considering both the characteristics of …
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evidence to assess the relative magnitudes of these three effects as they apply to further trade liberalization in Mexico. We … study the determinants of the industry pattern of US imports from Mexico and of value added by Mexico's maquiladora sector … effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on pollution in Mexico. …
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This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico …
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Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to mid-century Mexico did better on this score than did most countries around …, and to those attributable to domestic forces specific to Mexico. It uses a neo-Ricardian model (with non …
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government might be tempted to devalue. In Mexico it would also appear that the costs and benefits of maintaining the regime were …
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We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide …
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the period of trade policy reforms between 1985 and 1989 when Mexico experiences both an important inflow of foreign …
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investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico -- firms' wage reports to …
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