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In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made it easier for domestic producers to take advantage of the opportunities brought by the...
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heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the most productive plants in a country like Mexico enter the export …
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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 …
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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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stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the … workers outside the formal sector have promoted the growth of the informal sector. -- Mexico ; family policy ; informality …
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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 …
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This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...
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We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...
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This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political institutions during three political regimes and assesses the industrial sector's performance across these different regimes. Further, it evaluates the different industrial...
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