uninsured poor. We also suggest that in Mexico the thresholds of the weather index be (continuously) re-calibrated in order to …Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather … mainly focused on many cases in Africa and Asia, in this article we analyze the WII program in Mexico, which is one of the …

reduces the short-run likelihood of institutional change toward democracy. Output contractions due to adverse weather shocks …

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

power has become a policy priority. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper introduces a simple simulation method, the … of reducing concentration in two markets in Mexico that are known for their high level of concentration: mobile …

investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico - firms' wage reports to the …

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 …