Using new survey data from Mexico, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of policy changes on the … flow of migrant labor from rural Mexico to the United States and test for differential effects of policy changes on male …

obtain an education because of its effect on future earnings. Individuals differ in their initial income levels. Mexico doesn … United States, but Mexican population growth and productivity gains induced by liberalization will make the Mexico of the … future much larger than today, especially in those sectors that use intensively Mexico's abundant low-skilled labor …

Mexico, a prominent liberalizer, failed to attain stellar gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the 1990s, and since … 2001 its GDP and exports have stagnated. In this paper we argue that the lack of spectacular growth in Mexico cannot be … extraordinary growth of exports and foreign domestic investment (FDI). The key to the Mexican puzzle lies in Mexico's response to …

In this paper, I examine the impacts of trade and investment liberalization on the wage structure of Mexico. Part one … of the paper surveys recent literature on the labor-market consequences of Mexico's economic reforms in the 1980?s …. Mexico's policy reforms appear to have raised the demand for skill in the country, reduced rents in industries that prior to …

In this paper, we derive three lessons from Mexico's experience. First, deep reforms like trade liberalization are not … elites breaks down. In the case of Mexico, this happened during a fiscal crisis, when some groups tried to displace other …, Mexico limited radical liberalization to the manufacturing sector. The government has only recently begun to undertake …

Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were …

Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all … of the manufacturing belt in and around Mexico City and the formation of broadly specialized industry centers located in … northern Mexico, relatively close to the United States. The North American Free Trade Agreement is likely to reinforce these …

This paper considers the likely effect on the automobile industry of a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico …. As there are currently large restrictions on imports into Mexico, one important outcome of a free trade agreement would …

Mexico. In Section 1. we use comparable measures of three air pollutants in a cross-section of urban areas located in 42 … higher levels of income. Section 2 studies the determinants of the industry pattern of U.S. imports from Mexico and of value … added by Mexico's maquiladora sector. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in the U.S. industry …