This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …

the coexistence of large exporting plants with import competing plants within 4-digit industries. During trade … liberalisation we document persistent horizontal waves of creative destruction, a decline in traditional import competing plants and …

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …

economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support at all in …

We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration … for individual and municipality features, we find that individuals living in municipalities more exposed to Chinese import … competition are more likely to migrate to other municipalities within Mexico, while a negative effect is found on the decision to …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican …