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North-South Trade Liberalization and Returns to Skill in the South : The Case of Mexico
Otero, Rafael; Hazarika, Gautam - 2021
. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …, 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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Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations : Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector
Fuentes, Miguel - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155309
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Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023
voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347084
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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Superstition in the Housing Market
Fortin, Nicole M. - 2013
We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079157
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Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe
Manduca, Robert - 2020
Canada saw upward mobility rates near 50% for recent cohorts, while countries like Norway and Finland saw sustained rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828603
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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries
Rault, Christophe; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria - 2021
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
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Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare : A New Measure and Some New Evidence
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2011
on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131165
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Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular
Aterido, Reyes - 2011
Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers' incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120129
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Income Risk, Income Mobility and Welfare
Krebs, Tom - 2012
income process. The empirical application of our framework using data on individual incomes from Mexico provides striking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096445