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stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of its workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …
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Mexico's conditional cash transfer program. We find that transfers had a large effect on asset accumulation among the low …
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A theoretical model is developed and applied to the North American auto industry, motivated by the possibility of US-Mexico …. Using an applied GE model, we find that (A) the gains to Mexico are significant and the effects on the US and Canada are … North American multinationals determine markups, increased imports from Mexico do not result in a rationalization of US and …
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recent currency crises: Korea (1997), Mexico (1994) and Turkey (2001) …
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Conventional analysis in the trade-industrial-organization literature suggests that, when a country has some market power over an imported good, some small level of protection must be welfare improving. This is essentially a terms-of-trade argument that is reinforced if the imported goods are...
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With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade …
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Mexico. While cognitive test scores account for a limited share of the height premium, roughly half of the premium can be …
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In this paper, I examine the impacts of trade and investment liberalization on the wage structure of Mexico. Part one … of the paper surveys recent literature on the labor-market consequences of Mexico's economic reforms in the 1980?s …. Mexico's policy reforms appear to have raised the demand for skill in the country, reduced rents in industries that prior to …
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financial crisis, as in Mexico in 1994, to a sharp decline in economic activity after a crisis occurs. It does so by outlining …
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