In this paper, I study the effect of economic integration with the United States on state-industry employment growth in … Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all … liberalization has strong effects on industry location. Consistent with the transport-costs hypothesis, post-trade employment growth …

finds that expanding exports per worker in Mexico's municipalities increased labor force participation but not employment …This study provides new evidence on the local labor market impacts of trade, differentiating between the employment … customs with indicators on employment and labor incomes for around 2,000 Mexican municipalities over 2004-14. The analysis …

labor-income trajectories of emigrants from Mexico City, the paper analyzes how the labor market in a regional city, Leon …