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 …

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 …

income process. The empirical application of our framework using data on individual incomes from Mexico provides striking …

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly …

returns to education in urban areas of Mexico during the past two decades (1987-2008). Applying Melly's (2005) quantile … role. This evidence seems to suggest that the changes in wage inequality in urban Mexico cannot be interpreted in terms of …

supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state … effect is contingent on political factors related to Mexico's democratic transition. Killings increased substantially more in …