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U.S. Manufacturing and an Emerging Mexico

Leamer, Edward E.; Medberry, Chauncey J. - 2021

This paper offers a vision of the future of trade in manufactured products between Mexico and the United States. This … proximity of Mexico and the United States, and also for the continuing wage gap between Mexico and the United States. The vision … liberalized Mexico. Based on the OECD trade patterns, an emerging Mexico will present U.S. export opportunities that are a …

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Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare

Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William F. - 2005

This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...

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Reform from within

Tornell, Aaron - 2008

We present a model of endogenous institutional change that rationalizes reforms that have taken place in the context of economic crisis and drastic political change. Most of the reforms have been initiated by powerholders, even though they have ended worse off relative to the status quo. The...

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The Balance of Payments and Borrowing Constraints : An Alternative View of the Mexican Crisis

Atkeson, Andrew; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - 2022

in Mexico from 1987-1995. More generally, our model suggests that countries which undertake sweeping macroeconomic and …

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Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Brown, Ryan - 2017

that affect those attitudes are not fully understood. Using longitudinal survey data collected in Mexico before and during …

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The Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being

Bando, Rosangela - 2017

) in their study on a non-contributory pension scheme in Mexico. Thus, we conclude that the effects of non …-contributory pensions on well-being in rural Mexico can be largely generalized to Peru …

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The Employment Effects of Mexican Repatriations : Evidence from the 1930's

Lee, Jongkwan - 2017

During the period 1929-34 a campaign forcing the repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans was carried out in the U.S. by states and local authorities. The claim of politicians at the time was that repatriations would reduce local unemployment and give jobs to Americans, alleviating the...

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The Distributional Consequences of Large Devaluations

Cravino, Javier - 2017

We study the impact of large exchange rate devaluations on the cost of living at different points on the income distribution. Poor households spend relatively more on tradeable product categories, and consume lower-priced varieties within categories. Changes in the relative price of tradeables...

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Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks : Evidence from Mexico

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2015

To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to … as a “soda tax,” effective January 2014. I analyze data on taxed and untaxed products collected as part of Mexico …

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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement

Orden, David - 2015

Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were …

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