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This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that … Mexico are between 8.2% and 8.4 %. On the other hand, results by level of education suggest that more education is associated …
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We determine the extent of cyclical comovement in employment among the regions of Mexico by analyzing the covariance of …
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the country. Our results suggest that the economic structure and productivity of southern Mexico is considerably different …
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We examine the role of political factors in Mexico’s antidumping regime, considering both the characteristics of target …
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investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico - firms' wage reports to the …
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The literature on the development of Mexican social sciences during the twentieth century has rarely considered universities as part of the state. If we do, then universities are characterized by traits similar to those of the state, such as clientelism. This plausible hypothesis has never been...
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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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This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households. Data from the evaluation of a Mexican development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect...
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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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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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