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Trade, FDI, migration, and the place premium : Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy; Robertson, Raymond - 2015
United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in … evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may …
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The effects of local market concentration and international competition on firm productivity : evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis F.; … - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202018
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Distributional effects of competition: a simulation approach
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
of reducing concentration in two markets in Mexico that are known for their high level of concentration: mobile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418634
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The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647664
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Concentrating on the fall of the labor share
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017
The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612751
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Labor market concentration
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; Steinbaum, Marshall - 2017
A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001498
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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...
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Revisiting economic assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans immigrants in the United States
Peri, Giovanni; Rutledge, Zachariah - 2020
Using data from the United States spanning the period between 1970 and 2017, we analyze the economic assimilation of subsequent arrival cohorts of Mexican and Central American immigrants, the more economically disadvantaged group of immigrants. We compare their wage and employment probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177719
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The effects of enforcement on illegal markets : evidence from migrant smuggling along the Southwestern border
Gathmann, Christina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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