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identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted …
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nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping job ads from a … leading job search website. As in the U.S., the number of vacancies in Mexico declined sharply during the lockdown (38 percent … sum, we find no evidence of a significant or permanent change in labor demand during the pandemic in Mexico. …
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Conditional cash transfer programs have spread to over 80 countries in the past two decades, but little is known about their long-term effects on the youth they target. This paper estimates the impact of childhood exposure to the Mexican program Progresa on economic outcomes in early adulthood...
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We assess long-term impacts of the Mexican conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on youth employment and earnings. We rely on the original random assignment into early and late treatment localities, which introduced CCTs in 1998 and 2000. We focus on children between 7 and 16 years of age in...
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During the period 1929-34 a campaign forcing the repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans was carried out in the U.S. by states and local authorities. The claim of politicians at the time was that repatriations would reduce local unemployment and give jobs to Americans, alleviating the...
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There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....
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