Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …-employment carries a premium in Mexico. In contrast, the upper-tier segment is marginal in South Africa, and informal workers, both …

heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the most productive plants in a country like Mexico enter the export …

returns to education in urban areas of Mexico during the past two decades (1987-2008). Applying Melly's (2005) quantile … role. This evidence seems to suggest that the changes in wage inequality in urban Mexico cannot be interpreted in terms of …

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 …

Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade …

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 … ; informal sector ; mobility ; panel data ; Mexico …

migrants who return home have failed in the host country. -- return migration ; self-selection ; assimilation ; U.S.-Mexico …

Mexico after trade liberalization and domestic reforms. We find that wage inequality and returns to post-secondary schooling …