scaling up by local suppliers in the value-added chain, the particular role of firms in the value chain in Mexico and the …

This paper documents how informal employment in Mexico is countercyclical, lags the cycle and is negatively correlated … to formal employment. This contributes to explaining why total employment in Mexico displays low cyclicality and … variability over the business cycle when compared to Canada, a developed economy with a much smaller share of informal employment …

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death … of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to … mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage …

occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies …This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration … industries) and managers/professionals in manufacturing. Furthermore, there are important distinctions whether offshoring occurs …

), the ‘quality’ of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European … countries and sectors. We study employment shares in fabrication and headquarter occupations in terms of functional … specialisation and employment upgrading, making two specific contributions. First, we explicitly account for pre-existing asymmetries …

We analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted in response to an increase in Chinese import competition between …. The reduction in employment levels was accompanied by an increase in the population that exited the labor force. The … negative employment impact was three times more severe on production workers than on nonproduction workers, indicating that …

analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted to increased Chinese-import competition over different time horizons. The … effects on employment were mainly associated with job destruction from exiting firms, particularly those that were small and … medium-sized. During periods in which employment fell, the population that actively participated in the labor force fell. The …