This paper studies the effects of macroeconomic shocks in employment and wages for the case of Mexico. I find that … and employment in the informal sector. I derive a theoretical model to study the effects of macroeconomic shocks on wages …

: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their … international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …

.  However, migration flows from southern Europe responded little to  free migration after 1986, despite substantial … differentials in real GDP per worker.  The simple explanation we propose for this puzzle is migration costs.  We explore the … implications of our costly migration model by combining individual information from two household survey datasets (Luxembourg …

rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the … endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable estimation our empirical results show that international migration has a … the capital obtained from international migration only to overcome liquidity constraints for subsistence production …

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is …

This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed …

Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program …, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but guaranteed income stream increases US migration … collateral to finance the migration. The individuals who start migrating because of this income shock belong to households with …

terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases …This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin …. Previous literature has produced inconclusive evidence, with some studies suggesting that migration reduces income poverty …