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Mexican entrepreneurship : a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2006
for men, those who live in ethnic enclaves. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; Mexico ; Mexican-Americans …Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among … populations residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375894
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Oportunidades : program effect on consumption, low participation, and methodological issues
Angelucci, Manuela; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2009
In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the estimation of treatment effects. We discuss the comparability of treatment and control areas,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902804
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An evaluation of the performance of regression discontinuity design on PROGRESA
Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776063
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Conditional cash transfers and labor market conditions
Molina, Teresa; Vidiella-Martin, Joaquim - 2021
Do local labor markets influence the effectiveness of educational policies? To answer this question, we focus on Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607608
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977438
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993400
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Can temporary wage incentives increase formal employment? : experimental evidence from Mexico
Abel, Martin; Carranza Noguera, Eliana; Geronimo, Kimberly - 2022
Formal sector entry-level jobs in Mexico offer low starting salaries but substantial wage growth. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460181
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Heterogeneous impacts in PROGRESA
Djebbari, Habiba (contributor);  … - 2008
The "common effect" model in program evaluation assumes that all treated individuals have the same impact from a program. Our paper contributes to the recent literature that tests and goes beyond the common effect model by investigating impact heterogeneity using data from the experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656929
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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243470