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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity : Are Services Firms Different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119546
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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
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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2012
We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104672
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Changes in Wage Structure in Mexico Going Beyond the Mean : An Analysis of Differences in Distribution, 1987-2008
Tello, Claudia - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105426
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The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances
Vaira-Lucero, Matias - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of the US Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a significant effect on remittance flows from illegal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106294
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Cross-Border Spillover : U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico
Dube, Arindrajit - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088995
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Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance : The Case of Mexico
Fuchs, Alan - 2013
mainly focused on many cases in Africa and Asia, in this article we analyze the WII program in Mexico, which is one of the … uninsured poor. We also suggest that in Mexico the thresholds of the weather index be (continuously) re-calibrated in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091889
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Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States : Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014
migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070915