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Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
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exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of a welfare program in Mexico. The in-cash transfer is found to significantly …
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, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …
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United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in … evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may …
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. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …
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employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …-employment carries a premium in Mexico. In contrast, the upper-tier segment is marginal in South Africa, and informal workers, both …
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