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Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
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United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in … evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may …
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. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …
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; self-employment ; job history ; Mexico …
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States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and … Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration … convergence for workers with high migration propensities. Finally, we find evidence of convergence in the border of Mexico vis …
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Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We …
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with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …
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using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …
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This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representative developing country with a large unregulated of "informal" sector. It confirms the relevance of the recent mainstream models and debates surrounding gross worker flows to the developing country context,...
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