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Crises, what crises?
Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2006
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...
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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010
stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274259
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The NAFTA tide: Lifting the larger and better boats
Calderon-Madrid, Angel; Voicu, Alexandru - 2007
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants' responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268325
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Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations
Fiess, Norbert M.; Fugazza, Marco; Maloney, William F. - 2008
with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268792
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Short-time work benefits revisited: Some lessons from the Great Recession
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011
The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in place. In some countries like Italy, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the...
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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - 2013
investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico - firms' wage reports to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329189
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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border
Gathmann, Christina - 2004
This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on...
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Aid and Migration : An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration
Angelucci, Manuela - 2004
This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households. Data from the evaluation of a Mexican development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect...
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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Villagomez, Elizabeth - 2000
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 …
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …
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