In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U ….S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff treatment upon reentry into the United States. Foreign assembly plants in Mexico, most of … combine data on employment and earnings in two-digit manufacturing industries for U.S. border cities with data on employment …

We examine illegal immigration in the United States from Mexico over the period 1976-1995. One challenge is that we do … individuals apprehended attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Based on a simple migration model, we postulate the … apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border, person hours the U.S. Border Patrol spends policing the border, and wages in the United …

regions of the United States and Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol polices U.S. boundaries, seeking to apprehend any individual … southern California, southwestern Texas, and Mexican cities on the U.S.-Mexico border. For each region, we have high …) immigration from Mexico has a minimal impact on wages in U.S. border cities …

In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue … that rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to capital inflows from abroad. The effect of these capital inflows, which … production in Mexico towards relatively skill-intensive goods thereby increasing the relative demand for skilled labor. We study …

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages …

uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new … association between poor employment performance and the presence of trade unions. The union employment growth differential is …

or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …