Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising … commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United … States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and …

China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports …

We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico … concentration on inequality are not sizeable, the impact on wages for skilled and unskilled workers is significant. …: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing …

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of earnings and earnings changes of formal workers in Mexico … information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the … impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …

China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports …

Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising … commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United … States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and …

, a positive nonlinear relationship is found to exist. -- Wage Inequality ; Trade Liberalization ; Foreign Direct … of trade openness and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in explaining inter-industry wage differentials for the case of … Mexico. Using INEGI's National Survey of Urban Employment for the period 1994-2004, the empirical analysis is conducted on …

Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade … Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output …, but these prices flattened by 1999 and thus cannot explain the subsequent decline in wage inequality. An alternative trade …

employment and wages. Chinese competition tended to have the opposite effect. Additionally, we find that the labor market …We analyze the labor market consequences of international trade, using the evidence provided by the behavior of Mexican … labor markets after the introduction of NAFTA in the nineties and the accession of China to the WTO in 2001. Following an …