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This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U.S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to existing literature by decomposing income differentials into short- and long-term components and by...
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n this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance...
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investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico - firms' wage reports to the …
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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the legalistic view, and in terms of productivity view of the labor market this paper makes an empirical...
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