Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile …, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …

This paper conducts a cohort analysis of labor participation in urban Mexico in recent decades. The rates analyzed are …

analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps covering almost 2,400 municipalities in Mexico …

The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis …

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 …

longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005 2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …

Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in …

This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the …

We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal …