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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: Globalization and Corporate R&D forthcoming in …
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this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA …
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This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on...
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This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households. Data from the evaluation of a Mexican development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect...
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We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …
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Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among … populations residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within …
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This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the legalistic view, and in terms of productivity view of the labor market this paper makes an empirical...
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Mexico's indirect tax system. This leads to the identification of several possible pro-poor tax reforms in that country. It …
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