Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … maquiladora program was to increase formal employment, we study how the rapid increase in maquiladora activity has affected labor … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features …

firm heterogeneity offers new tools for analyzing the effects of offshoring on the employment dynamics within an individual … in the offshoring nation increases, the overall sector employment may increase or decrease. Policies promoting free trade …Offshoring has gained a significant momentum in recent years. Firm size appears to be the leading factor …

positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market …

states located in the vicinity of Mexico City. In the rest of the states, employment fluctuations are unrelated to national … employment across Mexican states. As a measure of formal employment we use the number of workers with permanent contracts … states are highly heterogeneous with respect to the degree of employment comovement and the association between the state and …

We determine the extent of cyclical comovement in employment among the regions of Mexico by analyzing the covariance of … the disturbances in regional cycles during the period July 1997 - October 2009. Employment refers to the number of workers … structural multivariate model of the employment time series. We find, for most regions, that employment comovement is high and …

We raise the question whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to employment generation in Mexico and … FDI has a significantly positive, though quantitatively modest impact on manufacturing employment in Mexico. Moreover, we … employment data covering almost 200 manufacturing industries. We estimate dynamic labor demand functions for blue and white …

Wie lebt es sich in einer Grenzregion? Dieser Artikel möchte eine Antwort darauf geben und stützt sich auf eine …

Handlungsfelder für eine vertiefte Kooperation in der Grenzregion identifiziert. Es wird analysiert, welche "kritischen Massen" in der … Grenzregion mobilisiert werden könnten, um auf beiden Seiten der Grenze Schwächen zu überwinden und die Gesamtregion im Wettbewerb … Entwicklung der Grenzregion abgeleitet und mögliche Entwicklungsszenarien für die deutsch-dänische Grenzregion modelliert. Das …