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The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It … the EU is likely to gain much more than Mexico. …
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This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the …
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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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We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …
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and regionally representative of rural Mexico. Employing a Gini decomposition and controlling for whole household …
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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 …
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equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexico, and Argentina the costs had been materially lower, but still in …
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