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Trade liberalisation in Mexico: Rhetoric and reality
Pacheco-López, Penélope; Thirlwall, Anthony P. - 2004
This paper examines the process of trade liberalisation in Mexico, particularly since the mid-1980s and the signing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290687
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The impact of trade liberalisation on exports, imports, the balance of payments and growth: The case of Mexico
Pacheco-López, Penélope - 2004
liberalisation involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on exports, imports and the balance of payments in Mexico … slowdown of Mexico's growth in recent years. NAFTA has not delivered the improved growth performance that was promised by … Mexico's political leaders at the time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290694
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Trade sustainability and aid under liberalization in fragile least developed countries
Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. - 2007
This study investigates the effect of trade liberalization on export growth, import growth, the trade balance and the current account of the balance of payments in 17 least developed countries (LDCs) over the period 1970 to 2001. The paper also assesses the marginal relation between capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284646
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Foreign trade and the gender earnings differential in urban Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam; Otero, Rafael - 2002
discrimination in urban Mexico as measured by the gender earnings differential. More than four decades ago, Becker argued that labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279364
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The effect of trade and FDI on inter-industry wage differentials: The case of Mexico
López Noria, Gabriela - 2011
Mexico. Using INEGI's National Survey of Urban Employment for the period 1994-2004, the empirical analysis is conducted on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322564
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Preferential trade agreements: The case of EU-Mexico
Busse, Matthias; Huth, Matthias; Koopmann, Georg - 2000
The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It … the EU is likely to gain much more than Mexico. … EU und Mexiko bewertet. Dafür werden die europäische und mexikanische Handelspolitik analysiert und der multilaterale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295609
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Tomatoes or Tomato Pickers? - Free Trade and Migration in the NAFTA Case
del Río, Amaranta Melchor; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422132
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Trade liberalization and credit constraints: Why opening up may fail to promote convergence
Peters, Katrin; Schnitzer, Monika - 2012
Recent evidence suggests that despite opening up a country for trade, the productivity gap between developed and emerging economies often does not close. This paper examines credit constraints as one channel held responsible for hampering convergence. Specifically, we extend a Melitz and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333786
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Globalization and Multiproduct Firms
Nocke, Volker; Yeaple, Stephen - 2013
We present an international trade model with multiproduct firms. Firms are heterogeneously endowed with two types of capabilities that jointly determine the trade-off within firms between managing a large portfolio of products and producing at low marginal cost. The model can explain many of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333860
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Issues and Prospects on the Movement of Natural Persons and Human Capital Development in the Philippine-American Economic Relations
Tullao, Tereso S.; Cortez, Michael Angelo A. - 2006
The United States of America is the top trading partner of the Philippines and also the top destination of highly skilled and professional Filipino workers. This paper explores the possibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) that covers the asymmetries of the two countries in labor, services and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429833