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Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations : Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector

Fuentes, Miguel Andrés - 2009

In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made it easier for domestic producers to take advantage of the opportunities brought by the...

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The NAFTA Tide : Lifting the Larger and Better Boats

Calderón Madrid, Angel - 2008

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants' responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...

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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

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

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Has the Growth in 'Fast Casual' Mexican Restaurants Impacted Weight Gain?

Giuntella, Osea - 2018

The United States is witnessing a boom in fast casual restaurants owing to the recent growth of ethnic restaurants throughout the country. This study examines the effects of proximity to a Mexican restaurant – the dominant type of ethnic fast casual restaurant – on maternal and child health....

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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier - 2010

stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …

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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela : Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses

Fields, Gary S.; Duval-Hernández, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - 2021

economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support at all in …

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Institutions and Development in MENA Region : Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector

Arayssi, Mahmoud - 2015

This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The results reveal that English civil law origin and the...

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Analysis of Pay Inequality and Its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Lee, Jeong-dong; Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Yunhee - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hâle - 2022

longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005 2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …

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Hispanic Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2007

This paper analyzes causes of the low self-employment rates among Hispanics, which are nearly half of non-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower entrepreneurship rates among Hispanics, the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. The paper...

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