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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...
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with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …
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important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial … poverty and inequality in terms of incentives to design formulas to distribute earmarked fiscal resources to subnational …
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trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …
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of reducing concentration in two markets in Mexico that are known for their high level of concentration: mobile … points in the poverty headcount as well as a decline of 0.32 points in the Gini coefficient. …
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analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico …Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has …
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This paper investigates labour supply of married women in Mexico City. A static neoclassical structural mode is used …
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This paper studies the cause of the changes in male wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested in how much of the change in the dispersion of wages can be explained by the changes in the characteristics of...
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Population ageing is the 21st century's dominant demographic phenomenon. Declining fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large-sized cohorts to the older ages are causing elder shares to rise throughout the world. The phenomenon of population ageing, which is unprecedented in...
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This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...
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