competition are more likely to migrate to other municipalities within Mexico, while a negative effect is found on the decision to …

important as lack of funding for new investment in capital for rural producers in Mexico. Producers benefit from easing their …This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans … loans on production and investment decisions, input use, and yields. Using a multiple treatment methodology, it explores the …

-level data and compare the behavior of employment, production and investment after two big real exchange rate shocks: the first … exporting firms exhibited higher growth rates of employment, sales, and investment vis-á-vis non-exporters. We confirm our …

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 …

It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by … find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs …

in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data …

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 …