this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA …

development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect of the potential grant size on migration. The empirical analysis is …

Mexico's indirect tax system. This leads to the identification of several possible pro-poor tax reforms in that country. It …

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

development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect of the potential grant size on migration. The empirical analysis is …

Mexican and US Censuses, and use the calibrated model for policy evaluation. I evaluate the long run effect of the Progresa … Mexico attenuating the pressure, especially of illegal immigrants. …

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …

We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …

Do local labor markets influence the effectiveness of educational policies? To answer this question, we focus on Mexico …'s conditional cash transfer program, PROGRESA, documented to have increased educational attainment. We show that PROGRESA's impact …