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market to three American countries are revealed. The impact is strongest for Canada, followed by Mexico and Brazil, which are …
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activity in Mexico is measured using regional coincident indexes recently developed at Banco de México, while US aggregate …
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Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …
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The current economic slowdown in the United States and the decline in remittance growth to some Latin American countries have intensified the interest in the relationship between these variables. We investigate whether host country conditions affect remittance outflows to Latin America, focusing...
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and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …
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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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This paper uses a subjective wellbeing approach to study the role of household arrangements on the health satisfaction … of an individual. It also studies the impact of household arrangements on health satisfaction across different income … the family, implies that the within-the-household allocation of relevant health satisfaction resources leads towards an …
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A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...
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We analyze trends in the age of economic independence in six industrialized countries, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy … men of the same age. North America (the United States and Canada ) and to some extent the U.K. offer partial exceptions to …
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We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U ….S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true … about 0.10 standard deviations of additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide …
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