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This paper examines the link between imported technologies and a country’s export performance, as measured by product quality. The analysis is set against the background of the process of regional integration between the EU and its neighbouring developing countries. The underlying question is...
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This paper looks at the factors driving regional growth in Mexico, paying special attention to the potentially growth … formation of adequate social conditions for innovation (the social filter), and spillovers for 31 Mexican states and the Mexico …
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very detailed Mexican data for 1994-2004, a period of liberalization in US trade policy vis a vis Mexico, mandated by the …
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investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico -- firms' wage reports to …
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evidence to assess the relative magnitudes of these three effects as they apply to further trade liberalization in Mexico. We … study the determinants of the industry pattern of US imports from Mexico and of value added by Mexico's maquiladora sector … effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on pollution in Mexico. …
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This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico …
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Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to mid-century Mexico did better on this score than did most countries around …, and to those attributable to domestic forces specific to Mexico. It uses a neo-Ricardian model (with non …
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government might be tempted to devalue. In Mexico it would also appear that the costs and benefits of maintaining the regime were …
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We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide …
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the period of trade policy reforms between 1985 and 1989 when Mexico experiences both an important inflow of foreign …
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