of the Mexican economy such as the differences between maquila and non-maquila manufacturing plants and the existence of …

Following a couple of decades of offshoring, the fear today is of reshoring. Using administrative data on Mexican … employment, nor manufacturing wage employment overall. Yet, the latter is the result of two counteracting forces. Exposure to U ….S. automation reduced manufacturing wage employment in areas where occupations were initially more susceptible to being automated …

offshoring towards lower-income countries such as Mexico has been proposed as a potential driver of this decline. Our analysis … provides a unique and new approach to address the question of whether trade and offshoring have impacted the occupational …