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Height, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico

Vogl, Tom - 2012

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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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...

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Border Walls

Allen, Treb - 2018

What are the economic impacts of a border wall between the United States and Mexico? We use detailed data on bilateral … wall between the United States and Mexico from 2007 to 2010 affected migration. We use these effects to estimate a general …

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Self-Selection and International Migration : New Evidence from Mexico

Kaestner, Robert - 2010

This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence...

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Is Mexico a Lumpy Country?

Bernard, Andrew B.; Robertson, Raymond; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though … industries. This heterogeneity helps to both undermine Mexico's aggregate labor abundance and motivate behavior that is more …

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International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages : Evidence from Mexico and the United States

Chiquiar, Daniel; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022

In this paper, we use data from the Mexico and U.S. population censuses to examine who migrates from Mexico to the … United States and how the skills and economic performance of these individuals compare to those who remain in Mexico. We test ….S. natives, are on average more educated than residents of Mexico, and 2) were Mexican immigrants in the United States to be paid …

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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - 2014

Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...

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Technology and Skill : Twin Engines of Growth

Stokey, Nancy L. - 2018

A model is developed in which two complementary forms of investment contribute to growth—technology and skill acquisition, and growth takes two forms—TFP and variety growth. The rate of TFP growth depends more heavily on the parameters governing skill accumulation, while variety growth...

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Upstairs, Downstairs : Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank

Autor, David H.; Levy, Frank; Murnane, Richard J. - 2021

We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly different changes in the structure of jobs in two departments of a large bank overseen by one group of managers. In the downstairs deposit processing department, image processing...

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Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality : Some Problems and Puzzles

Card, David E.; DiNardo, John E. - 2021

The rise in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical change (SBTC), associated with the development of personal computers and related information technologies. We review the evidence in favor of this hypothesis, focusing on the...

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