boost activity on the northern Mexican border. In this paper we estimate the effects of both policies on prices. We find … that the upward pressures on prices due to the minimum wage hike were more than offset by the downward pressures associated … with the VAT. In the absence of the VAT reduction policy, average prices in the northern Mexican border would have been …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market …. -- inequality ; wages ; disposable income ; labour markets ; Mexico …

year and the NMW shapes the timing of industry-level wage bargaining. Inflation but also changes in past aggregate wage … macro variables are 0.6, 0.4 and 0.3 respectively. Inflation and the NMW have both decreasing but positive effects all along …