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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 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...
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Labor Market Adjustment to Third Party Competition : Evidence from Mexico
Robertson, Raymond - 2018
China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets …. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …
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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships
Francesconi, Marco - 2006
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...
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Entrepreneurial Entry : Which Institutions Matter?
Aidis, Ruta - 2009
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
Casari, Marco - 2014
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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Property Rights and Gender Bias : Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2016
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...
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Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2017
We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate property rights protection might exacerbate such...
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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 …
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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...
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