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

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

in wife's and husband's income on husband alcohol abuse and alcohol-induced violence using new data from rural Mexico. A …

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

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among … populations residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …

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 …

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 …