The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis … identify its main determinants. For that purpose, the paper estimates a probit model with data from the National Employment …

it determines accessibility to employment subcenters and public transport stations. Using a geographically …-referenced data set on new housing developments, this paper estimates how households value accessibility in Mexico City. The results … are shown considering road accessibility to formal employment subcenters (private accessibility) and distance to the main …

data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … likelihood that students in upper secondary and tertiary school exit school in Argentina and Brazil, but not in Mexico. For the … three countries, the analysis finds evidence that youth who drop out due to a household income shock have worse employment …

in Mexico City. The study is based on focus group discussions and individual in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers … parents in Mexico City, decisions in favor of or against the use of childcare are based on: (1) the interplay between women …

-term positive impacts on self-employment and skills match, while positive but uncertain effects emerge for employment and earnings … training days attended). These positive impacts, however, do not lead to higher employment or greater earnings …

exports by municipality, sector and destination from 2004 to 2014, this paper investigates how local labor markets in Mexico … that are more exposed to automation in the U.S. through trade fared in exports and employment outcomes. The results show … growth in exports per worker from Mexico to the U.S. by 6.7 percent. Higher exposure to U.S. automation did not affect wage …

It is a contentious issue whether large scale mining creates local employment, and the sector has been accused of …,000 individuals and exploits the spatial-temporal variation. With mine opening, women living within 20 km of a mine switch from self-employment …

Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …

This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …