Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile …, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …

using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of …

economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … occasional support for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support … at all in the case of Argentina. Rather, earnings mobility is most frequently convergent or neutral in all three …

with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …

-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political …

battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production …

informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on informality and self-employment and information on labor inspections …