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Can a populist political party bear the risk of granting complete property rights? Electoral outcomes of Mexico's second land reform

de Janvry, Alain; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Sadoulet, … - 2011

The Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political dependence for beneficiaries on the ruling political...

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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu-por - 2012

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...

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A dainty review of the business and economic history of Chile and Latin America

Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo - In: Estudios de Economía 42 (2015) 2, pp. 5-16

This introductory piece provides some context to the special edition on business and economic history of Chile and Latin America. It also provides an introduction to better understanding research and method in business history while inviting for this field to be further developed in Chile.

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Constrained Potential: A Characterisation of Mexican Microenterprises

Negrete Garcia, Ana Karen - 2018

This paper investigates the existence and nature of constraints prevailing among Mexican microenterprises. It provides inter-temporal insights by relying on firm-level data spanning from 1994 to 2012. A performance index is defined based on firm levels of capital stock and monthly profits, and...

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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border

Gathmann, Christina - 2004

This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on...

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000

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 impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican migrants' remittances

Vaira-Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

This paper investigates the effect of the US Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a significant effect on remittance flows from illegal...

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Brazil's automotive and textile sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic: Crisis, repercussions and responses from the government, companies and labor unions

de Conti, Bruno; Welle, Arthur; Breda, Diógenes Moura - 2023

In addition to the severe health crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic provoked one of the deepest socioeconomic crises in the history of capitalism. Yet, the economic structure of each country and the strength of the welfare state, along with the ability of the diverse governments to cope with the...

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Nach dem Quotenfall: (K)ein Grund zur Beunruhigung für das Textil- und Bekleidungsgewerbe?

Hofmann, Herbert - In: ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2005) 04, pp. 37-41

Zum 1. Januar 2005 sind für die Mitglieder der World Trade Organisation (WTO) alle Quoten, die bisher den Handel mit textilen Produkten eingeschränkt haben, weggefallen. Für das deutschen Textil- und Bekleidungsgewerbe wird dies aber wahrscheinlich keine direkten, gravierend negativen...

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Nachhaltiger Konsum und Textilabkommen: Sollten Unternehmen und Konsumenten auf die Einhaltung von Mindeststandards verpflichtet werden?

Ferenschild, Sabine; Körzell, Stefan; Silberhorn, Thomas - In: ifo Schnelldienst 69 (2016) 01, pp. 3-11

Im Oktober 2014 wurde das Bündnis für nachhaltige Textilien von Vertretern der Wirtschaft, Zivilgesellschaft, Standardorganisationen und Gewerkschaften gegründet, um soziale, ökologische und ökonomische Verbesserungen entlang der Textillieferkette zu erreichen. Zeichnen sich nach etwas...

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