immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …

.English Abstract: The minimum wage is low in Mexico. The cause is a monetary view that causally links an increase in wages with … inflation, motivating that minimum wage increases equal to or less than prices in general. Higher minimum wages will affect …

The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income …-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a rather heterogeneous … impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author's findings reveal that …

differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity …-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

The variation of real wages in the Mexican labor market has been very large over the last three decades, either … measurements of the marginal product of labor: one based upon labor inputs and the other on market wages. The measurement based on … real wages shows a huge fall at the beginning of the end of the centralized planning-total protectionism times of the early …

In this paper, I examine the impacts of trade and investment liberalization on the wage structure of Mexico. Part one … of the paper surveys recent literature on the labor-market consequences of Mexico's economic reforms in the 1980?s …. Mexico's policy reforms appear to have raised the demand for skill in the country, reduced rents in industries that prior to …

Inequality in education accounts for a large share of the inequality in earnings in Mexico. But the increase in … been driving inequality in earnings in Mexico, Lopez-Acevedo finds that inequality in education accounts for the largest … Mexico ranks second in size in Latin America, after that in Brazil, and its significance has been increasing. Moreover, the …

Cuts in Mexico's tariff l ... …