total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …

and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an increasing share … the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental … effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex …

score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors …

examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …

"Improved competitiveness is at the top of the agenda for Mexico as it moves to leverage economic progress made over … sectors in Mexico. They use four indicators of trade facilitation: port efficiency, customs environment, regulatory …, and apply it to the case of Mexico. The formula brings the below-average countries in the group half-way to the average …

"The authors examine the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico. Using historical migration …, for the majority of rural Mexican children, family migration depresses educational attainment. Comparison of the marginal …

"Mexico experienced a pronounced increase in the degree of inequality and earnings inequality over the 1980s and mid …

large informal or unregulated sector, Mexico. It studies quarterly gross flows of workers over a 15-year period that …

Mexico and the United States. And it discusses the efforts that private sector and government organizations are making to … differences between the countries' typical household incomes-national income per capita in Mexico in 2002 was US …