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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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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 …
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in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data …
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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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We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...
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school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
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migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on …
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This paper conducts a cohort analysis of labor participation in urban Mexico in recent decades. The rates analyzed are …
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Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We …
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