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US border enforcement and Mexican immigrant location choice
Bohn, Sarah; Pugatch, Todd - 2013
We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229582
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530812
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Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455581
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Inequality and trade policy : pro-poor bias of contemporary trade restrictions
Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2019
This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor trade policy is expected to have lower welfare gains or higher welfare loss at the low end of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988644
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Offshoring and skill-biased technical change in the context of US protectionism
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2019
We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107297
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Unintended consequences : can the rise of the educated class explain the revival of protectionism?
Giordani, Paolo; Mariani, Fabio - 2020
This paper provides a rationale for the revival of protectionism, based on the rise of the educated class. In a trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168075
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The NAFTA tide: lifting the larger and better boats
Calderón Madrid, Angel (contributor);  … - 2007
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646696
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International job search : Mexicans in and out of the US
Rendón, Sílvio (contributor);  … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646713
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Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso (contributor) - 2007
in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646722
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008
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 …
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