. 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 …

This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …

heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the most productive plants in a country like Mexico enter the export …

longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …

find that labor market conditions have a strong effect on homicides. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as …