productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …

With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade …

that exclusion did not affect U.S. agricultural wages or employment. Important mechanisms include adoption of less labor …

immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …

In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue … the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the share of skilled labor in total wages in Mexico using state … that rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to capital inflows from abroad. The effect of these capital inflows, which …

United States, but Mexican population growth and productivity gains induced by liberalization will make the Mexico of the … obtain an education because of its effect on future earnings. Individuals differ in their initial income levels. Mexico doesn … future much larger than today, especially in those sectors that use intensively Mexico's abundant low-skilled labor …

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 …

This paper explores the relationship between wages and foreign investment in Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States … countries: higher levels of foreign investment are associated with higher wages. In Mexico and Venezuela, foreign investment was … associated with higher wages only for foreign-owned firms -- there is no evidence of wage spillovers leading to higher wages for …