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Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico. Revisiting the evidence

Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980 and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive tool in developing countries, we find that the...

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The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more … the Mexican import tariffs are significantly related to reductions in the likelihood of informality in the tradable …

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Urbanizing refuge: interrogating spaces of displacement

Sanyal, Romola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Refugee spaces are emerging as quintessential geographies of the modern, yet their intimate and everyday spatialities remain under-explored. Rendered largely through geopolitical discourses, they are seen as biopolitical spaces where the sovereign can reduce the subject to bare life. In...

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Financing social policy in the presence of informality

Ahmad, Ehtisham; Best, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We present a framework for the analysis of tax and benefit policy in countries with significant informality. Our …

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Tax reform in the presence of informality in developing countries: incentives to cheat in Mexico

Ahmad, Ehtisham; Best, Michael; Pöschl, Caroline - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...

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Gross worker flows in the presence of informal labor markets. The Mexican experience 1987-2002

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the … counter cyclical job finding in the formal sector combined with the acyclical job finding in informality does lead to the …

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Tenure reformed: planning for redress or progress in South Africa

James, Deborah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article explores the contradictory and contested but closely interlocking efforts of NGOs and the state in planning for land reform in South Africa. As government policy has come increasingly to favor the better-off who are potential commercial farmers, so NGO efforts have been directed,...

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